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LIVE AND GROW YOUNG 


BY 

ARTHUR EDWARD STILWELL 

AUTHOR OF 

“universal peace,” “war is mesmerism,” “to all the 

WORLD (EXCEPT GERMANY),” “THE GREAT PLAN,” 

AND “THE LIGHT THAT NEVER FAILED” 

BUILDER OF 

THE KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILROAD; KANSAS CITY SUBUR¬ 
BAN BELT RAILROAD; KANSAS CITY NORTHERN CON¬ 
NECTING RAILROAD; KANSAS CITY, OMAHA & EAST¬ 
ERN RAILROAD; KANSAS CITY, MEXICO & 

ORIENT RAILROAD', ALSO BUILDER OF 
PORT ARTHUR SHIP CANAL, AND 
FOUNDER OF PORT ARTHUR, 

TEXAS 


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NEW YORK 

YOUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY 

576 FIFTH AVENUE 



Copyright, 1921, 

By Youth Publishing Company 

All Rights Reserved Including that of Translation into 
Foreign Languages 


First Edition 


JUN 11 1921 


Press of 

J. J. Little & Ives Company 
New York, U. S. A. 


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RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED 


TO 

CHAS. M. SCHWAB 

FOR WHOM THE AUTHOR HAS 
ALWAYS HAD A HIGH REGARD 









































CONTENTS 


PAGE 

Foreword . i 

The Real Spiritualist .. 9 

The Living Life .. . . y 12 

The Lost Art of Living.16 

The Mesmerism of Years ..25 

The Value of Years ........... 31 

Your Atmosphere.36 

The Deluge.39 

Visualization and Realization ..43 

New Thoughts for Old ...... . . „ s 47 

How to be Unhappy though Married ...... 50 

The Wrong Right.. . 54 

Your Own Shop Window.. 58 

Faith.. 60 

Love and Hate.64 

Magnitude and Simplicity.67 

Understand Yourself.. 72 

The Ghost Factory. 76 

The Smile Factory.81 

Your Sub-conscious Phonograph.85 

The Rolling Stone ........ . ... 89 


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CONTENTS 


PAGE 

Discontentment and Discomposure.■ . 92 

Intuition and Fruition.. . 97 

The Road to Nowhere.. 99 

Regrets and Rejoicing .103 

Universal Peace . . ... 106 

Spiritual Elevators . . . . « & u u u u & .. no 







LIVE AND GROW YOUNG 


FOREWORD 

During the last six months the subject matter 
of this book “Live and Grow Young” has been 
given to me in my sleep by those in the spirit 
world. Their logic appealed to me. I had al¬ 
ways resented the seeming injustice of the short 
span of man’s life. But, when my unseen visitors 
informed me that it was possible to prolong life 
by following their advice, my interest grew until 
I impatiently awaited these rarely interrupted 
nightly talks. Soon I came to realize that these 
disclosures were having a beneficent effect on my 
health. I seemed to shed years; my viewpoint of 
life changed; elasticity came into my step. No 
books I had ever read, no lectures I had ever 
heard had produced such an effect on me as this 
new revelation. I not only noticed the remark¬ 
able change in myself but many of my friends 
commented upon it. In giving this book to the 
public, it is my sincere desire and hope that the 
truth it reveals will benefit others as it has me. 


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2 


FOREWORD 


All my life, even when a child, I have received 
messages from the spirit world and they have 
greatly influenced my life. When I was 15 years 
of age my life’s companion was selected for me by 
this choir invisible, and I was told that I would 
marry her when I was 19 years old, which I did. 
The wisdom of their selection and my apprecia¬ 
tion of it has been the paramount factor in 
strengthening my faith in these leadings. 

From the plans and advice received in this way 
I have been able to build five western railroads, 
2,500 miles altogether—more than any other 
living man has constructed. By this means I have 
founded forty odd cities and villages with a com¬ 
bined population of more than 125,000. I was 
warned by my nightly advisers not to make Gal¬ 
veston the terminal of the Kansas City Southern 
Road because that city was destined to be de¬ 
stroyed by a tidal wave, which prediction was 
fulfilled, tragically, four years later. Thereupon, 
I constructed the City of Port Arthur, Texas* 
and built the Port Arthur Ship Canal and Harbor 
under the same guidance, not deviating from the 
plans revealed to me in any way. 

In 1910 they told me that a great war would 
appall and deplete the world and directed me to 
write a book on universal peace and dedicate each 
chapter to Their Majesties, George, William and 


FOREWORD 


3 

Nicholas, as the future peace of the world 
lay in their hands. The book was published by 
the Bankers’ Publishing Company, of New York, 
in 1911. 

In September, 1914, my spirit friends dictated 
to me a second book on universal peace and indi¬ 
cated outlines for a League of Peace that I am 
convinced is workable and seemingly perfect. In 
this book, they—through me—predicted the de¬ 
feat of Germany; the breaking of the autocratic 
power of Russia; that Finland and Poland would 
regain their independence, and Jerusalem be re¬ 
turned to the Jews. This book was published in 
London, January 1, 1915, under the title, “To 
all the World except Germany.” The third book, 
“The Great Plan,” was dictated to me from the 
shadow land in 1917 and published by Hodder 
& Stoughton, London, in 1918. It contains a 
complete plan for Universal Peace—simple and 
practicable. 

Since that date these messengers have dictated 
to me over twenty novels, some photo-plays and 
several songs, although I do not know a note of 
music. The first novel, “The Light that Never 
Failed,” has just been issued by Jerrolds, Ltd., 
London, and others will soon follow. While the 
books on peace, like this message on “Live and 
Grow Young” came to me serially night after 


FOREWORD 


4 

night each novel was given me complete in one 
night. My mind’s eye and ear visualized the 
scene and heard the text. These books were dic¬ 
tated to me as plainly as anyone hears ordinary 
conversation and made such a vivid impression 
on my mind that I could reproduce them verbatim 
years later. Since these novels and plays are only 
transcribed by me, I may be allowed to say a 
word in praise of them. They are unusually 
clean, vital plots and will be a purifying power to 
uplift and fill a long-felt want in the photo-play 
world. 

There is no doubt in my mind that these mes¬ 
sages come from the spirit world, and that this 
circle of spirits that communicates with me by 
this rare method is comprised of engineers, poets 
and authors. Some say it is due to the operation 
of my sub-conscious mind. I will not argue this. 
This book is no brief for spiritualism. It con¬ 
tains and exploits the message of “How to Live 
and Grow Young.” How these truths came and 
from whom they came, the reader may surmise 
for himself; it is immaterial to the author. How¬ 
ever, it is his earnest hope that the book will fulfill 
its mission and prove to be of great help to thou¬ 
sands. 

The results he has achieved in this remarkable 
industrial development of his country during the 


FOREWORD 


5 

past thirty years should make the reader receptive 
to this, his guidance, which if followed, should 
enable the follower to become the master me¬ 
chanic of his body, to consider it an adaptable 
machine for the expression of harmonious action 
in all organs and functions. Thus, his years will 
lengthen and become peaceful and harmonious. 

The question will naturally arise in the mind 
of the reader—“IS the Author a spiritualist?’’ 

In the common acceptance of the term, he is not — 
a spiritualist and he has read very little on the 
subject. He has never attended a spiritualist 
meeting and has encountered but one medium. He 
is a spiritual-list. He lists for spiritual messages. 
The definition of the real spiritual-list he gives 
to you as it was dictated to him in the following 
chapter. 

He is fully convinced that death is but a passing 
to a new plane of consciousness and that this truth 
is more or less withheld from us so that we may 
not be distracted from our daily problems. The 
knowledge of the reality of immortality has been 
revealed to a few in every age to keep the light 
burning on the altar of faith and the circle re¬ 
ceiving these communications is ever widening. 
The fact that messages are received from the 
spirit world by many is a foregone conclusion, and 
since a number of newspapers, led by the New 


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FOREWORD 


York Evening World and Boston Post have pub¬ 
lished the autobiography of the author relating 
these remarkable experiences, it has brought to 
him numbers of convincing proofs from others 
from all parts of the United States. 

The fact that spirits can communicate with us 
is in itself of little moment, and there may be 
great danger in attempting to delve too deeply 
into the unseen. Messages that appear to be of 
vital importance to the world or to those who re¬ 
ceive them, should be carefully weighed and not 
blindly accepted. It is necessary to stay on earth, 
to keep calm and not allow the fact of being able 
to communicate with the next plane make the re¬ 
cipient a “nut”; for life can be wrecked if undue 
importance is given to this phenomenon. It is 
better not to waste time waiting for them. Attend 
to your daily affairs and when messages are re¬ 
ceived, weigh them well before acting upon them 
for the spirit, or spirits, that convey them may 
be those whose advice, were they on earth, you 
would ignore. Death does not immediately nor 
necessarily endow man with wisdom. “Test the 
Spirits” according to Bible admonition. 

While the experiences recorded in these pages 
are unusual, the author is not alone in this field. 
Robert Louis Stevenson states that all of his 
novels came the same way—in his sleep. Socrates 


FOREWORD 


7 

was in constant communication with the other 
world and states that the wisdom he handed down 
to man came from spirit messengers whom he 
called Darmones. 

The author believes that the prevailing doubt 
in spiritual communication withholds this expe¬ 
rience from many, but why should those who 
believe in the Bible doubt spiritual communica¬ 
tion? The Bible says “Try the Spirits,” “Culti¬ 
vate Spiritual Gifts,” “Despise not Prophesying.” 

“It shall come to pass in the last days, saith 
God, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and 
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and 
your young men shall see visions, and your old 
men shall dream dreams.” 

Abraham, Joseph, Pharaoh, Israel, Gideon 
and Daniel told their dreams, were impressed by 
them and acted upon them. 

“Since Samuel’s Ghost appeared to Saul, of 
course, My Brother’s Spirit may appear to me.” 

It was a dream that caused Joseph to take 
Christ into Egypt. The Wise Men were warned 
in a dream not to return to Herod. History is 
filled with records of dreams bringing about great 
reforms. D. D. Home, the favorite psychic of 
kings during the reign of Alexander II, material¬ 
ized Nicholas, the father of Alexander II, who 


FOREWORD 


8 

recognized him and following his advice, freed 
40,000,000 serfs. 

It is said that spiritual messages to the Em¬ 
peror Joseph of Austria induced him to grant 
religious freedom. History tells us that John 
Wesley, the founder of Methodism, had spiritual 
manifestations in his home for over thirty years. 
The Swedenborgian religion is founded on 
visions. 

Joan of Arc changed the history of France by 
her vision from the spirit world. From about 
the age of 13 she declared she heard heavenly 
voices which at last became very definite in their 
commands to go to the aid of Charles and liberate 
France. 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Oliver Lodge, 
Maeterlinck, and a host of eminent and credible 
witnesses have had convincing proof of unending 
life, and if this volume helps to strengthen and 
establish this belief, and aids in the acceptance 
of the message “Live and Grow Young,” the 
Author will be repaid; but even if the reader 
cannot accept it as a message from the spirit 
world, the logic in these pages will aid in the task 
all have before them of arresting the ravages of 
time and luring from each day and year, peace, 
health and happiness. 


THE REAL SPIRITUALIST 


When a person is designated as a spiritualist, 
those who are not of that faith usually think that 
the person mentioned spends most of his time 
evening after evening in some dark, musty, un¬ 
ventilated room, waiting for an unkempt medium 
to produce in time the ringing of a bell or a few 
notes from a banjo. This may be true, as it is in 
a great many cases, but spiritualism is not this by 
any means. 

Spiritualism is a power in the world for the 
development of faith in immortality, and it has 
come to stay, but frauds will be found among 
those that seek it and among those that expound 
it, and it must not be judged by its dishonest ex¬ 
ponents. It has brought great comfort of late to 
thousands. Many of those who have turned to 
it for comfort may, as their sorrows are banished 
by the passing of years and other interests, forget 
it; but others will take it up and it will grow as 
the years pass on, but the real spiritualist of the 
future will insist that this word has two ll’s— 
spiritual-list,—it will mean those that list for 
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10 


THE REAL SPIRITUALIST 


spiritual messages,—spiritual messages that come 
in all manifestations of God and nature. The real 
spiritual-list will not need to neglect his home and 
rush each evening to some seance, and sit with 
hands on the table hoping it will move and spell 
out a few words, but he will see evidence of spir¬ 
itual life and its manifestations in all nature; 
in the reproducing of life; in the budding of trees 
and the fragrance of flowers; the roar of the sea 
and the song of the birds—all will speak to the 
real spiritual-list of God. He may be a Jew, or 
Gentile, Mohammedan or Buddhist, and yet be 
a spiritual-list in the highest sense of the word. 
All of nature will be a message from the unseen, 
and by this uplifting of thought he will see the 
truth in the twenty-third, ninety-first, and other 
psalms, and by listening for spiritual truths, they 
will seek him and he will hear them. All of nature 
will speak to him of the Infinite. He will un¬ 
consciously feel he is a part of the whole expres¬ 
sion of God. He will know that in boundless 
space are paths that he will some day tread, and 
that the knowledge of them in its entirety is only 
withheld that he may not be distracted from the 
problems of to-day, all he sees and hears will 
just be notes from God and he will not need 
seances to convince him of their truth. 


THE REAL SPIRITUALIST 


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JUST A NOTE FROM GOD 

It was just a note from God, 

That came in the lily fair: 

It was just a note from God, 

Borne on the fragrant air; 

It was just a note from God, 

In the rainbow-tinted sky, 

He drops them down that we may read 
As the days and years pass by! 

It was just a note from God 
In the banked and angry cloud; 

It was just a note from God, 

In the thunder crashing loud; 

They are all just notes from God, 

Notes never writ with pen; 

But on gaunt rocks and fields of flowers— 
Notes to be read by men. 


THE LIVING LIFE 


There are for each resident of earth, two 
paths to take—the Living Life or the Passing 
Life, a life that renews itself or a life that ex¬ 
hausts itself, a life of the thoughtful person who 
has preserved and retained the life-flowing vigor 
or the one whose life force has been lessened. 
The dictionary definition of life is really little 
comprehended, but it is in reality the great truth. 
The definition of life is union of body and soul. 
The definition of soul—the spiritual, rational, 
immortal part of man; therefore, mortal man has 
a compound existence of a mortal body and an 
immortal soul. If mortals could see themselves 
as they are seen by those on the next plane, they 
would see that each person has and lives in a 
distinct atmosphere that reflects all colors and is 
changeable as thought changes—that great char¬ 
acters have great atmosphere, and, no doubt, the 
idea of the halos surrounding the heads of holy 
persons came from the fact that their atmosphere 
was so pronounced that it could, at times, be seen. 

The definition of atmosphere is “gaseous en¬ 
velope surrounding any heavenly body, the in- 


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THE LIVING LIFE 13 

fluence (mental and moral) exerted on a person 
by their environment.” 

Now man, like the stars, has his own atmos¬ 
phere but it is not made from the inAuences, 
mental and moral, exerted on him by his environ¬ 
ment. It is partly inherited, but mostly made by 
man himself. It is this that is the life force of 
the human body, and when this is a strong, steady, 
unchanging atmosphere, the body works in perfect 
harmony. 

There are healthy atmospheres and unhealthy 
ones, just as there is a healthy atmosphere on the 
mountain tops and there are unhealthy ones in the 
swamps. As man is master of his thoughts and 
deeds, he has the power to create a healthy body 
with a living, vitalizing atmosphere, and thereby 
lengthen his life. When this is fully understood 
and realized, the span of life will be doubled 
and trebled and in time carried on almost indeA- 
nitely. As long as man believes that the span of 
life is three-score-years-and-ten and that old age 
and death are inevitable, his body will respond to 
that belief. It will rob him of the power to create 
a living atmosphere and the spirit can And no 
entrance to the channel through which to express 
itself. 

When a child is born, its atmosphere is a com¬ 
bined hue of that of its parents, the color of the 


THE LIVING LIFE 


14 

stronger parent predominating. If the parents 
had a sense of weakness, the atmosphere of the 
child usually reflects this weakness. As the years 
pass on, the child by its life and thought, creates 
a personal atmosphere. 

Everyone is free to create his own atmosphere, 
and can by visualizing and affirming life, health 
and strength, change it to one of life more 
abundant. 

The mesmerism of years is the most depressing 
power in the world to kill ambition and shorten 
life. We really live in Eternity now and “The 
Kingdom of Heaven is within” each one of us. 
Death will not reveal it. Man has the power to 
create his own Heaven here by right thinking. 
Thinking is the most important business of life. 
“Out of the imaginations of the heart cometh the 
issues of life.” Our thought has as great a power 
on our atmosphere as light has on the sensitive 
plate of a camera. It receives whatever mental 
seed you give to it and will create and give back 
to you whatever you think into it. 

As times passes on and 60, 70 and 80 years 
are reached, the poisonous thought that the end 
of life is drawing near is a seed planted in the soil 
of your sub-conscious mind which is reflected in 
your atmosphere. The latter starts to shrink and 
that which extended for over a foot or two from 


THE LIVING LIFE 


15 

the body during youth, now each year grows 
smaller and smaller. Each time age is thought 
of brings lessened days—a shorter life. The at¬ 
mosphere grows weaker and less able to furnish 
the life force for the mortal machine and the 
hour comes when this fear has entirely destroyed 
the living atmosphere and as the mortal machine 
has no reserve power from which to draw, death 
follows, as the auto must stop when there is no 
gas in the tank. 

This is the truth for man—that he can create 
each day a living, vitalizing atmosphere that will 
furnish the needed power for his mortal machine. 
If it could become a fact to us that years did not 
in any way produce weakness, that years only 
added strength; if when we reached the prime 
of life, we could mentally reverse the years, each 
year growing younger instead of older, really 
believing that we were growing younger, decrepit 
old age would in time be eliminated. This con¬ 
viction would produce a life-giving, life-sustaining 
atmosphere and 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 and 150 years 
would be reached with our natural force unabated. 
Our atmosphere would radiate youth and the 
functions of the body would work in harmony. 

“Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall 
make you free.” Life is God. Life is eternaL 
Then, why not Live and Grow Young? 


THE LOST ART OF LIVING 


In the following chapters we will consider 
some of the errors of life and show the reason 
why life is not longer; why the art of living long 
is a lost art; also the needed plans to prolong life 
and to create a life-giving atmosphere. 

All acts and thoughts have their direct influence 
on the individual atmosphere. Crime waves, war, 
fear of wars, fear endangered by the press, de¬ 
pressing and depraving bitterness, abnormal appe¬ 
tite and intemperance of all kinds; all of these 
take from man the power to create and maintain 
a healthy, vital, life-giving atmosphere on which 
the material body lives as the fish lives in the 
w r ater. 

The art of creating a life-producing and life¬ 
prolonging atmosphere is a lost art, but one that 
can be regained. This book will have its effect 
on the thought and lives of thousands and thus 
others will be inspired to follow the plan of living 
here recorded and create their own healthy at¬ 
mosphere. 

It is necessary, only, to consider some of 
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THE LOST ART OF LIVING 17 

the great leaders in Bible history to understand 
that the art of living long is a lost art. Moses 
was 120 years old when he died. His eyes were 
not dim nor were his material forces abated. 
The years of Isaac were 180. Joshua died at 
no. Rehoboam was 140 when he began to 
reign and reigned for 17 years. Job lived to 
140 years of age and there are records of many 
others who attained even much greater age. In 
those days the food was more simple; exercise 
was forced on all men; lack of modern errors 
made life more simple. They had no daily 
sensational press to tell them of all the murders 
and suicides that happened in all parts of the 
world, and fill their minds at the beginning of 
each day with revolting, depressing news. The 
disasters that befell the world were not known 
until years after. Men lived simple, God- 
loving lives and it was thus easy to create the 
necessary life-producing atmosphere; easy to 
consider and believe that long life was possible 
as they had examples of others who had lived to 
be 140. and more years. 

Then, the mesmerism of three-score-years-and- 
ten did not erect that deadly barrier in thought 
as it has for the people of this age. This belief 
that three-score-years-and-ten was the alloted 
time of life has done more to shorten life than 


18 THE LOST ART OF LIVING 


all wars and plagues the world has ever expe¬ 
rienced, and when this mesmeric thought is broken 
by a few, as it will be, life will at once lengthen 
for the mortal body renews itself as long as life 
lasts, and renews itself according to the pattern 
you give it, and if the atmosphere in which you 
live is renewed daily, purified by healthy thoughts, 
it will be possible to almost indefinitely prolong 
life. 

One of the causes that has shortened life in 
the past has been the gloomy hue given to it by 
established religions with their creeds of pre¬ 
destination, foreordination, infant damnation 
and the belief that earth was a vale of 
sorrow from which death liberated man. To¬ 
day, religion is being lifted up, purified, clari¬ 
fied, and man is finding religions of hope 
and joy. No truth can be encompassed by 
creeds nor copyrighted. Man should be free to 
express his own inspiration and not be held in 
bondage by organizations and creeds; his mind 
should always be open to new thought which is 
truth forcing itself on man, and be it new thought 
in an old established sect or a new sect with new 
thoughts that uplift, they are all good, spiritual 
elevators. Some appeal to one and some to 
others. They are a part of progress and it is 
right to progress, to be free, to perceive and accept 


THE LOST ART OF LIVING 19 

greater enlightenment. 'When man is ready for 
a new revelation, it is given him. It is always 
knocking at the portals of thought as the truth in 
these pages, and as God is the same yesterday, 
today and forever, that which was accomplished 
in the days of old, can be accomplished now. 

This lost art of long life can be regained. Why 
not try to regain it. At any rate, by cultivating 
healthy, hopeful thoughts, you will be happy and 
a joy to those you meet. You will help to make 
the world a better place to live in for all who 
come in contact with you. A hopeful, healthy 
atmosphere draws to you cheerful, happy, suc¬ 
cessful people like the magnet draws iron. Re¬ 
gain, if you can, the lost art of living long. 

To regain the lost art of living, you must ac¬ 
cept Christ’s statement that death is an enemy 
and if an enemy, you have a perfect right to 
combat it. This statement has never been ac¬ 
cepted by the so-called orthodox Christians, but 
instead they have accepted the fable that the al- 
loted life of man is three-score-years-and-ten. 
This powerful, poisonous lie is in nearly every 
conscious and sub-conscious mind and is more 
powerful than any thought or belief that man has 
to contend with in his battle for a long life; more 
powerful than all other beliefs and fears in the 
world. It is a murderous thought. It assassinates 


20 THE LOST ART OF LIVING 

man just as he has arrived at years of usefulness, 
few, if any, objecting to it—nearly all blindly ac¬ 
cepting it. Is there anything on earth that we 
so blindly accept as we do this three-score-years- 
and-ten lie? Man did not blindly accept the 
tallow dip as the final means of light; man did 
not accept the horse or the ass as the only means 
of transportation. Man did not accept the ap¬ 
parent fact that the only place for his feet was 
on earth and that the sky was for the birds, or 
that the depths of the sea were only for the fish; 
nor did he accept the slow post as the only means 
of carrying messages. And it is on account of 
this impelling desire to improve and accomplish 
that which seemed impossible, that we today light 
the world by electricity; that we are able to travel 
60 and 80 miles per hour by train; that we have 
wrested from the eagle his sole domain, the high 
heavens. Everything that comes to bless the 
earth must first be an idea in the mind of man; 
a vision in the mind of some so-called visionary 
man. Such a person was Socrates. The age in 
which he lived was not ready for the wisdom he 
expressed and they gave him the hemlock cup. 

The lie that three-score-years-and-ten is the al- 
loted time of man’s life has been believed too 
long. Its autocratic death-dealing power must 
be destroyed. Man will never be free from the 


THE LOST ART OF LIVING 21 


shackles of this belief until he perceives and under¬ 
stands that it is a fable. When that is under¬ 
stood and realized, long life will be re-established 
and accepted as naturally as the world accepted 
electricity in the place of gas and the tallow dip. 
The orthodox Christian will answer that it is 
God’s decree that three-score-years-and-ten are 
the alloted years of man’s life .and many will 
continue to believe it the same as they believe 
the fable of the earth being made in six days and 
the whale swallowing Jonah, and those who be¬ 
lieve this fable will come under it and depart. 
As they pass on, let us hope they will take their 
fable with them. 

If it were the creator’s will that man’s alloted 
time on earth is three-score-years-and-ten, death 
would not be an enemy, but part of the creator’s 
scheme of existence. Christ said that death was 
an enemy. Why not accept his statement? He 
also said that he came not to destroy the law but 
to fulfill it; therefore, we should look upon death 
as an enemy as Christ did and do all within our 
power to banish it and prolong life. Wherever 
Christ went, he was healing the sick and raising 
the dead. If death was part of God’s plan, he 
would not have attempted to overthrow it. 

People can drink contaminated water, and those 
with vital constitutions will perhaps be able to 



22 THE LOST ART OF LIVING 


resist its effects for some time, but those who have 
weak constitutions will sooner or later suffer from 
it. And so it is with all diseased and discordant 
thoughts—only those with strong constitutions 
are able to entertain them and survive, and even 
they pay the penalty in a weakened atmosphere 
and shortened life. Why hold them when 
there are plenty of good, strong, life-producing 
thoughts which enable you to Live and Grow 
Young. We have the power to choose our 
thoughts, so why not choose harmonious thoughts 
—life and health thoughts. 

Avoid, all you can, everything connected with 
the death thought. Do not form a habit of look¬ 
ing for and reading the obituary notices in the 
paper. Never mind who is passing away. Keep 
your mind on life and everything it represents. 
Do not attend funerals just for the sake of seeing 
how they are conducted. Some people make it 
a practice to go to the funeral of every prominent 
person. It, no doubt, amazed the disciple who 
asked Christ to allow him to attend his brother’s 
funeral when he answered—“Let the dead bury 
the dead; follow thou me.” 

While it may be necessary to attend your 
brother’s funeral, you need not make a practice 
of attending those of all your distant relatives and 
favorite movie stars. Funerals are permeated 


THE LOST ART OF LIVING 23 

with the mesmerism of death. They fill your 
mind with gloom and depressing thoughts until 
it is impossible to create a living vital atmosphere 
for yourself. 

This is the new truth that three-score-years-and- 
ten being the alloted span of man’s life is an un¬ 
fortunate lie. See the truth and free yourself 
from its deadly power. 


FROM 


“THE LIBEL” 


By Angela Morgan 

There is no crime against the human race 
More terrible than age—to take new gold 
Perfect and pure from the eternal mould 
And stamp so huge a falsehood on its face. 

How dare we halt and shrivel with the years? 

How dare we bow to death, decay and age 
When Life that thunders through a million spheres, 
Terrific torrent of creative rage, 

Sings in our sinews, laughs within the blood, 

Cries, “Counterfeit!” to man’s poor tale of blight; 
Shouts, “I can make you over in a night, 

If ye but yield to my renewing flood.” 

O Man, predestined creature of the sun, 

Speak, in thy might, but the stupendous Truth— 
Thy thought, thy will, thine aim and Nature’s one—- 
And thou shalt know at last eternal youth! 


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THE MESMERISM OF YEARS 


The mesmerism of years does more to shorten 
life than all the so-called disease germs of the 
earth. It robs man of the needed life-giving, life- 
sustaining atmosphere on which the mortal body 
lives. It takes from man the youth tints and 
colors that are necessary to produce youth and 
maintain it in all its freshness. 

Rise above the mesmerism of years if you 
would retain youth. Then the lines of age will 
not be manifest in your face. You will stand 
erect at ioo or more and your step will have the 
elasticity of youth, for your thoughts and your 
viewpoint are building your atmosphere and will 
be reflected in your body. After 50 the mesmer¬ 
ism of age slowly comes into your thought con¬ 
sciously or unconsciously; you mesmerize your¬ 
self each time you look into the mirror; a few 
gray hairs appear; you remember your father’s 
hair was gray at 55 and your grandfather’s at 50, 
so you accept it as inevitable and do not attempt 
to resist it. At 60 you daily think of the friends 
who are passing away and wonder how much 
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26 THE MESMERISM OF YEARS 

longer you may last. Pains come in your joints. 
You accept them as an indication of years. You 
give your system just the atmosphere needed to 
produce more pains. There is no resistance. 

Were you to find a burglar in your room at¬ 
tempting to steal you would resist him with all 
your power, but the greatest burglar of all—Age 
—is not resisted. Though fearing and hating it, 
you encourage it. At 70 you daily think you are 
within five years of the so-called alloted span of 
human life and wonder if you will reach it. One- 
half your time you consciously or unconsciously 
wonder how near the end you are. You are 
weakening each hour the life atmosphere on 
which the body lives. Could you see your at¬ 
mosphere you would understand how weak it was 
becoming and how necessary it was to arouse 
yourself to a realization of the youth conscious¬ 
ness to combat this mesmerism of years. At 80 
you figure you have perhaps lived longer than 
any relative you can remember. You expect weak¬ 
ness and accept decrepitude as your lot. You ac¬ 
cept the admonition of those near you that you 
are not as young as you once were and that you 
must be very careful; your atmosphere is depleted 
each day until there remains no life force to sus¬ 
tain the mortal body, and that which you greatly 
feared has come upon you. Why not resist this 


THE MESMERISM OF YEARS 27 

mesmerism of age? It is not an impossible thing 
to do. Think youth thoughts and age will lose its 
power. 

Understand that Moses at 120 had perfect eyes 
and his natural force was not abated; that Isaac 
did not give up until 180 years of age; that Job 
lived to 140 years of age. Smash the belief of 
three-score-years-and-ten. Get in the Job con¬ 
sciousness. If you cannot grasp that, fall back 
on the Moses consciousness and reach out for 
120. You are the master of years. It is your 
inheritance to have and to hold life and you can 
do it just as long as your vision will allow you to 
build the needed atmosphere on which to feed your 
mortal machine or body—the atmosphere that 
allows it to function life. 

If you cannot look in the mirror without seeing 
the marks of years, do not look in it until you have 
acquired the youth consciousness and allowed it 
to fill your mind and thought brimful. Make a 
practice of smiling at your reflection in the glass. 
It will make you look and feel younger and have 
a tremendous influence on your atmosphere. 
Affirm youth before you go to sleep. Affirm it 
when you awake. Walk the streets full of the 
conscious conviction that you are young—that you 
are youth. Feel life vibrating through you with 
each step. Affirm youth and all it represents— 


28 THE MESMERISM OF YEARS 

bright eyes and glowing cheeks, elastic step and 
graceful bearing, and you will develop an atmos¬ 
phere that will enable you to retain the natural 
color of your hair, your eyes will not grow dim, 
and you may as Moses did, reach the age of 120 
with your natural forces not abated. 

The late Dr. Metchnikoff of the Pasteur Insti¬ 
tute of Paris said that men should live to at least 
120 years of age, so you see Moses did the proper 
thing and while he led the children of Israel out 
of the wilderness, he also brought himself out of 
the old age thought which is indeed a wilderness 
for the majority of men. 

There resides in New York a gentleman 78 
years of age. His hair has retained its natural 
color; there are no lines of age on his face and 
you would not consider he was over 45. A friend 
asked him to explain the secret of his marvelous 
youth and his answer was—“I never allow age to 
enter my mind; I always think youth.” If this 
gentleman could do this, you can. He understood 
How to Live and Grow Young. 

The London Lancet a number of years ago 
stated a case where a woman went insane at the 
age of 20 and never realized the passing of years, 
always believing herself to be 20. At the age of 
79 she still retained the appearance of youth. 

The above two cases prove age can be defeated 


THE MESMERISM OF YEARS 29 

by changing your belief and breaking the mes¬ 
merism of years. If you feel any force or power 
is growing weaker or that you have lost it, run 
after it and command it to come back. If your 
hand begins to tremble, do not accept it as a 
necessary affliction and expect it to grow worse 
and perhaps develop into palsy, for this picture 
has creative power and if your fear is strong 
enough your body will produce it. Know that it 
is only the false mesmerism of years that has 
brought about this condition and break the mes¬ 
merism. You can talk to your hand. Command 
it to be still and assure it that it is just as steady as 
it ever was. Tell it that you will not allow it to 
manifest anything but youth and command and 
demand it to gracefully perform its proper func¬ 
tions, and it will obey you, for you are the master 
of your body if you will assume the mastery. 

Stand before the window each morning and 
for five minutes think of the sun kissing and glad¬ 
dening the earth, just as vital and life-sustaining 
as it was ten years ago. See all your faculties 
and the organs of your body just as vigorous as 
they were ten years ago. Say a dozen times—I 
am strength, I am power. Affirm this with feeling 
and know that your word is law which cannot be 
broken by the false belief of the world and you 


30 THE MESMERISM OF YEARS 

will break the mesmerism of years and Live and 
Grow Young. 

Emerson says, “We do not count a man’s years 
until he has nothing else to count,” so keep on 
moving, keep on achieving and give the world 
something else to count in your case. 


THE VALUE OF YEARS 


From time immemorial man has sought the 
elixir of life. Quest has been made in all lands 
for the fountain of youth. It has been the dream 
of every age to extend man’s earthly existence, 
but out of centuries of disappointment has come 
the knowledge that the prolongation of life can 
never come from the without. It can be only the 
product of the within. It is the thinking and 
living of life that will banish years and give 
health to man. 

All things worth possessing have their price, 
but things that add most to your success and 
happiness cannot be bought with gold. You may 
break the laws of Nature, yet, by chance, live to a 
goodly age; but why depend on chance when 
there are laws that can be followed and depended 
upon? Love has its price; peace has its price, and 
long life has its price. Are you willing to pay 
that price? It is not paid in coin of the realm, 
but in governing your thoughts, your acts and 
deeds; neither can you wait until the mortal body 
is a wreck and expect by paying the price at the 
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32 THE VALUE OF YEARS 

last moment to secure youth. You cannot begin 
too soon. Those who dissipate their fortune 
cannot remain wealthy. Those who dissipate 
their days cannot hope to live to the years reached 
by Moses and other patriarchs. 

Benjamin Franklin said, “Watch the pennies 
and the dollars will take care of themselves.” The 
new saying will be “Watch the days and the years 
will take care of themselves.” Now, what is the 
price all must pay to gain added years—To Live 
and Grow Young? The price is constructive 
thinking; the understanding that you have the 
power to think creatively; that thinking youth 
produces youth; that by constant right thinking 
you can build around yourself a life-giving, life¬ 
keeping atmosphere that will not only add to your 
years, but bring happiness in your home life and 
success in business. 

The laws of most lands protect the people by 
compelling druggists to put warning labels on 
bottles that contain poison, but there are thoughts 
more harmful than drugs from which there are no 
human laws to protect us. Each individual must 
be his own watchman at the door of thought. He 
should be on duty every moment—never off 
guard, for his atmosphere is made up of his 
thoughts and acts. There are many danger sig¬ 
nals along life’s pathway which, if obeyed, will 


THE VALUE OF YEARS 33 

save wreckage. You can, by attention, make 
yourself sensitive to these danger signals and in 
time almost automatically obey them. 

To Live and Grow Young, you must banish 
hate, worry and envy. You must cultivate sun¬ 
shine and joy, and above all, you must use modera¬ 
tion in your eating, for your stomach by the 
improper mixture of food, generates deadly 
poisons. These poisons destroy digestion and 
make you so miserable that you hate everything 
and everybody with whom you come in contact. 
This in time destroys your health atmosphere. 
Are you willing to give up foods you know are 
hurtful? Are you willing to be master of your 
appetites, or will you be ruled by them? Can you 
give up rich, highly seasoned foods for simple, 
wholesome food? 

It is not difficult to do this. Soon you learn 
to desire the simple foods and no longer crave 
the highly seasoned ones. Uncontrolled appetites 
and desire for rich food is intemperance. Many 
of us eat our graves open. We think we are 
eating food, while in reality we are eating years. 
We are often amazed when the bill is presented to 
us after an elaborate dinner. The cost seems 
exorbitant. If the bill also showed the price in 
years the dinner had cost us, we would be horri¬ 
fied. Life is lengthened by moderation. Be 


THE VALUE OF YEARS 


34 

moderate. Consider before, not afterwards. Do 
not jump at conclusions. Think over the price 
you must pay for what you are about to under¬ 
take. 

Do not amplify your business or home life just 
for the sake of splurging. Do not borrow at your 
bank merely because you have credit. Remember 
pay day comes and if it brings worry and anxiety, 
it shortens life. If you wish a short, uncomfort¬ 
able winter, make a large 90 day note in No¬ 
vember. 

It is stated that one of America’s former rail¬ 
road kings, having a bad case of grabitis, used up 
his life and strength recklessly. With colossal 
plans but partially matured, he came prematurely 
to the inevitable climax that confronts all who 
do not consider the value of years. He offered 
his physician, it is said, ten million dollars if he 
could prolong his life one year. It could not be 
done. He had not considered the value of years 
until it was too late. On the brink of the grave 
his millions were powerless to buy even one added 
year. 

The insatiable desire for power, to rival your 
neighbor, to be thought a good fellow, to have a 
better home than any of your friends often calls 
for great endeavor and the prodigal use of your 
force. Pause and think what years are worth 


THE VALUE OF YEARS 35 

to you. A careful man in any business venture 
counts the cost on the financial side, but not one 
in ten considers the cost in the value of years, yet 
it is even more important to do this than to con¬ 
sider the financial cost. The financial obligations 
you may be able to meet, but it may cost you 
years of life to do it. 

Cut your loss in the things that rob you of your 
peace of mind and take from you happiness and 
contentment if you would Live and Grow Young. 


YOUR ATMOSPHERE 


All things have individual atmosphere. Our 
atmosphere is created by our acts. By our material 
existence. The individual creates it by his life, 
thoughts and deeds. The hateful person has a 
disagreeable atmosphere; the kindly, loving per¬ 
son, a pleasing atmosphere. People feel these 
individual atmospheres just as they feel the shade 
of the trees or an approaching storm. The at¬ 
mosphere of many public men and women is felt 
by thousands. Some have lived such grand and 
noble lives that their atmosphere seems almost 
visible. There are people who reflect such hope, 
joy and sunshine in their atmosphere that they 
make a rainy day seem pleasant. Great lives 
leave behind them their atmosphere in the wis¬ 
dom they have given the world which illuminates 
the earth. This truth illustrates the phrase, 
“wrapped in meditation.” When wrapped in the 
right meditation, we are immune from adverse 
influences and to be constantly wrapped in this 
meditation is to abide in the “secret place of the 
most high.” 


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YOUR ATMOSPHERE 


37 

Not only has man his atmosphere, but each 
star has its atmosphere. The earth is warmed 
by the atmosphere of the sun that draws the seed 
into expression and fulfillment in the budding of 
the flower and the waving of the grain. You feel 
the atmosphere of the majestic cathedral, and 
upon entering it, though it may be vacant, the air 
seems charged with the presence of those who 
for centuries past have worshipped there. Beau¬ 
tiful homes have their atmosphere of refinement 
and squalid homes the atmosphere of lack and 
discouragement. 

Man is a dual personality—the soul that has 
existed from ever-was and will exist to ever-will- 
be; and the mortal body that is the temporary 
home of the soul. The soul is the spark of the 
infinite. The atmosphere is an envelope which is 
the product of thoughts and deeds, and is created 
for the expression of life. It is this that supplies 
the life force or principle that keeps the mortal 
body alive. If it is a weak atmosphere, it is a 
weak body—a weak expression of life. It regis¬ 
ters the hopes and fears and is more sensitive than 
the plate of the camera. The mortal body can 
only die when the atmosphere that envelopes it 
dies and can no longer give it force; there¬ 
fore, the more youthful and vital our thoughts, 
the stronger and more brilliant will be our atmos- 


YOUR ATMOSPHERE 


38 

phere and the greater power will be generated 
for the body. 

The 91st Psalm, understood and lived, gives 
man a vital life-producing atmosphere and prom¬ 
ise of long life is given to those who dwell in this 
concept. Those who live the truths on which this 
Psalm is based will have such a strong, vital at¬ 
mosphere that pestilence cannot reach them. 
There will be no terror by night and no fear of 
the arrow that fiieth by day. 

The secret of long life is in strong, vitalizing 
thoughts of youth, free from the belief and fear 
of age; in kind and tolerant thoughts, free from 
hate and impatience; in tranquil thoughts that 
prevent slight discords from growing into greater 
ones. 

Feed your atmosphere with life-producing 
thoughts, acts and deeds, with greater care than 
you feed your mortal body and you will Live 
and Grow Young. 


THE DELUGE 


The rain may fall on the just and unjust alike, 
but some seem to live on earth not alone in a 
rain but a deluge; some deluged by so-called 
blessings and some by obstacles. The deluge of 
blessings in the way of worldly riches and pros¬ 
perity is much harder to stand than that of ad¬ 
verse circumstances. The deluge of blessings in 
the majority of cases weakens and produces little 
to show for in manhood or womanhood. Those 
born in a deluge of blessings, unless born to the 
inheritance of a throne, and their name necessary 
to show an unbroken line, are seldom known to 
the second generation while virtually all of earth’s 
luminaries were born in a deluge of adverse 
environment and conditions. One is amazed in 
considering their lives, how they survived and 
became such strong characters. The sons of the 
rich, seldom, if ever, have saved any nation or 
people. The deluge of blessings and opportu¬ 
nities have engulfed them. The world could not 
exist overnight on the product of all the hot 
houses on earth. Our existence depends upon that 
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THE DELUGE 


40 

which survives in God’s pure air that withstands 
the drought and deluge. 

The hot house product—those born in marble 
halls—are like the hot house plants. They do not 
live in the atmosphere of sturdy, ennobling desire. 
Their lives are artificial, not self-created. They 
wither when out of the environment others have 
created for them. They need gardeners. 

The Saviours of the world have stood the 
deluge of adversity and like the oak on the moun¬ 
tain tops, buffeted by the winds and tornadoes, 
have sent their roots deep into mother earth and 
become strong and sturdy, drawing nourishment 
seemingly from the very rocks. They have de¬ 
veloped such a radiant atmosphere that it is as 
welcome to man as the shade of trees. They, like 
Noah, have weathered the deluge and left us 
blessings great in the wisdom expressed in the 
lives they have lived. 

“No pent up Utica contracts their power,” 

God and achievement brought them their hour. 

The deluge of opportunity usually leaves those 
born in such surroundings nothing to express. 
They have no strength of mind to develop sturdy 
manhood, while those born in a deluge of want 
and adversity make their own opportunities. The 


THE DELUGE 


4 i 

emery of adversity has sharpened their faculties 
and enabled them to withstand the deluge. Their 
world and their place in it has been the product 
.of the within, the product of a strong determina¬ 
tion which has been developed like the muscles of 
the athlete until it is like sword steel. 

So let all those born in a deluge of adversity 
realize that while the path may be stony and the 
road long and rough, there are opportunities 
ahead of them and a golden future if they will 
remember that they are on that great highway 
that practically all of earth’s benefactors have 
trod and that each seeming obstacle, if sur¬ 
mounted, has only strengthened their atmosphere 
and brought the desired result nearer. It is from 
such conditions that achievements have come, and 
that the worthwhile men have in nearly all cases 
reached the splendor and glory of an historic 
name by weathering the deluge of adversity in the 
Ark of Hope with the hatches of doubt and de¬ 
spondency down until the deluge has passed and 
they are resting safely on the mountain top of 
fulfillment. 

If a hot house product, leave the stifling atmos¬ 
phere ; come out where you can be your own gar¬ 
dener and exist on your own atmosphere. 

To those born in a deluge of adversity, it is for 
them to create, build and develop a name and 


THE DELUGE 


42 

place in the world, while perhaps not so lasting 
as the granite hills, will yet be engraved on the 
hearts of men and as the generations pass, lustre 
will be added to their name and so journeying, 
break the mesmerism of age, reach the golden 
heights of achievement the fruition of their en¬ 
deavors. 

Understand that the fable of three-score-years- 
and-ten is only a fable. To Live and Grow 
Young is one of the greatest achievements of life. 
Realize that it is possible with the same vision as 
the victorious future was discerned, to cause the 
mesmerism of age to be broken, and those who 
have been victorious over the deluge of obstacles 
and not been engulfed by adversity, can climb to 
any height. 

To all born in a deluge of adversity comes the 
possibility that they may break the mesmerism of 
years and remain on earth to enjoy the fruition 
of their endeavors. They will indeed be among 
earth’s greatest benefactors, for to see that three- 
score-years-and-ten is only a fable, to be able to 
Live and Grow Young, is the greatest achieve¬ 
ment of all. 


VISUALIZATION AND REALIZATION 


If we wish to realize any desired result, we 
must see it coming. We must visualize it, for 
visualization is the seed of creation. All Nature 
is subject to the necessity of visualization. 

The best of life comes from constructive 
visualization. By it, you bring into material mani¬ 
festation, your own world, your own environ¬ 
ment. By it, you call on the universal mind for 
supply. Your Father’s storehouse is full of the 
things you desire, and messengers loaded with 
blessings are ready to start from that storehouse 
at your call. Christ visualized his requirements; 
then gave thanks that they were on the way. He 
had no doubt that his desires would be fulfilled. 

It is by visualization that realization comes. 
By visualization your destiny is shaped. It is not 
chance that creates or guides your destiny. It is 
painted by the brushes of visualization and in no 
other way. Applied steam or electricity, and all 
the manifold blessings enjoyed by man were 
brought to the material world by thought. First 
an idea, a vision, then a material creation, or 
manifestation. 


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44 VISUALIZATION AND REALIZATION 

Take the locomotive as an example. The me¬ 
chanical engineer is instructed to build a locomo¬ 
tive of a certain power to pull a given load. As 
he works over the problem, his mind in reality 
takes mental trips to the region of the unseen. 
Imagination is the aeroplane that transports him. 
At last he sees the locomotive as a mental picture; 
his plans and specifications go to the works and 
his vision becomes a material realization and a 
thing of life. This material locomotive is not 
the real locomotive, for it can be destroyed. The 
real locomotive was the one that was visualized 
by the mind of the engineer. That cannot be de¬ 
stroyed. 

Before earth was created, that locomotive was 
waiting to be constructed, seen and used by man. 
It was this truth that St. Paul alluded to when 
he said the things seen are the unreal and tem¬ 
poral, and the things unseen, the real and eternal. 
In the case of the locomotive, Nature has its part 
in the building, for it created the material from 
which it was made. Man also has Nature as a 
helper in the renewal of his body. If he can 
visualize youth as the engineer visualized the per¬ 
fect locomotive, then his helpers will build his 
body according to his visualization. 

The constant visualization of age creates age, 
with its attendant disability. The body has no 


VISUALIZATION AND REALIZATION 45 

power of itself to create. Nature lends its power 
to help you to live by the process of renewal, 
building and rebuilding cell after cell. Nature is 
ever making all things new. Every few years the 
body is entirely rebuilt, but, always, according to 
the plan you have visualized. If you visualize 
advancing age, you will grow old. If you visualize 
in terms of youth, you will realize accordingly. 
Think youth and you stay young, for the thought 
of youth is youth. 

In the Rockefeller Institute is a chicken’s heart 
that science has kept alive for nine years and, 
theoretically at least, will remain alive indefinitely 
It is increasing in size and constantly rebuilds 
itself. It is a wonderful illustration of the re¬ 
newing power of life. What would man’s years 
be if youth were constantly visualized with the 
same power of thought exerted in constantly 
visualizing age, decrepitude and death? Health, 
wealth and success must first be visualized if we 
desire these blessings. Constant, unwavering 
visualization will bring them, not demanas given 
one day and countermanded the next; not faith 
one day and doubt the next. Do not speak the 
word and in the next breath deny its power by 
visualizing something that contradicts it. 

Visualization must be clear and persist nt, 
otherwise our dreams will be merely u treadmill 


46 VISUALIZATION AND REALIZATION 

of thought, never arriving at the desired goal. 
You may think you can hire a substitute to do this 
thinking for you, but it is personal work that 
counts. Some argue that visualization is only 
repetition and that they grow tired of repetition. 
They forget that taking daily baths is repetition; 
that indulging in three meals a day is repetition; 
that sleep each night is repetition. In fact, repe* 
tition is the order of the day, so why should daily 
visualization of the things desired be considered 
arduous. It is the very best investment to be 
made of time. Nothing happens by chance. All 
is law and you create your own law every time 
y^u think. 

Visualization and Realization are the highways 
..o prosperity, health and long life. Eternal 
vigilance is the price of success. 


NEW THOUGHTS FOR OLD 


If the Kingdom of Heaven is within man, then 
he should employ a St. Peter as the doorkeeper 
of his mind, to watch all thoughts that desire to 
enter and reject the ones that destroy happiness 
and health. What a host of discordant and un¬ 
worthy thoughts try each day to find resting place 
in the human mind, and what a powerful influence 
they exert when once they have found lodgement; 
but, with the wary St. Peter on guard to help him, 
he instinctively rejects these destructive thoughts. 
Take the thought of envy—one of the most de¬ 
structive of all forces. A person who is envious 
will try to kill the noble efforts of others by unjust 
criticism just because he resents his superior’s 
ability which he does not himself possess. He is 
lazy, perhaps, or lacks the ambition to work for 
the attainments or the accomplish!} tents of those 
he envies, otherwise he might in ime reach to 
their level. 

Have you ever attended a concert or the Opera 
with a musician? If so, by the fyme you have 
listened to criticisms of the singers and perform- 
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48 NEW THOUGHTS FOR OLD 

ers and had your attention called to all their mis¬ 
takes and imperfections, you probably have made 
up your mind never to attend a concert or an 
opera again with a professional. These criticisms 
are often made by a person who is standing still 
or making little progress in his profession, and so 
consumed with envy that he cannot enjoy good 
music. 

If your neighbor has anything that you desire, 
do not envy him, but spend your time developing 
the ability to gain the same for yourself. Instead 
of being envious of him, let his possessions inspire 
you to greater endeavor. Envious thoughts will 
affect your health, disturb your rest, bring bad 
visions, develop hate and shrink your atmosphere; 
while if the old earthbound thought of envy is 
exchanged for the new thought of inspiration, 
hard mental work and constructive thinking will 
bring you success and untold blessings. Be in¬ 
spired by the lives of great men and their achieve¬ 
ments. If you are not envious, your acquaintance 
with these atmospheres will refresh you, give 
you courage and fill your mind with the ennobling 
desire and ambition to be like them. 

Great minds are the light on life’s pathway. 
They are earth’s natural luminaries. They are 
persons who are continually sifting their thoughts, 
exchanging old thoughts for new ones. They 


NEW THOUGHTS FOR OLD 49 

reach the heights by means of the light with which 
they are endowed. 

Do not allow envy and inferior thinking to 
force you into the shade. Do not recognize or 
feel imperfection. Change the thought of imper¬ 
fection for that of perfection. Think of yourself 
as you want to be and know that your thought is 
creative; that what you create today you will 
realize tomorrow. Use new thoughts to create, 
not old ones. Always think of yourself as healthy 
and enduring. Change unhealthful thoughts for 
thoughts of health, for physical endurance is a 
powerful asset. Persevere against the thought 
of weariness. Change the old thought of weari¬ 
ness for the new thought of strength. See your¬ 
self strong. Carry an atmosphere that reflects 
confidence and enthusiasm and proclaims to the 
world that life is, and has been, worth living and 
that you are going To Live and Grow Young. 


HOW TO BE UNHAPPY THOUGH 
MARRIED 


The courts are so full of divorce cases that 
one is inclined to believe that unhappy married 
life is the logical result of matrimony. There 
are, also, millions of unhappy married people 
who do not resort to the courts, but, for the sake 
of children, for family reasons, or the dread of 
publicity, suffer the galling yoke for years or 
until death releases them. 

This chapter will explain how complete unhap¬ 
piness in married life may be obtained. None 
need fail in being unhappy if that is the condition 
desired. If not, the reverse of this method will 
produce happiness. 

To be unhappy though married, the married 
life should begin in the home of the young hus¬ 
band with the mother who adores him and the 
sisters who think no girl is good enough for him. 
This plan has been tried for ages and has seldom 
been known to fail. Then, the husband should 
always come home with a grouch. On the way 
home he should forget all the pleasant incidents 
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UNHAPPY THOUGH MARRIED 51 

of the day, remembering only the annoyances with 
which to regale his wife in the evening. This will 
produce an atmosphere of gloom and depression 
which will cause her little troubles to magnify out 
of all proportion and unhappiness will reign su¬ 
preme. Should you have difficulty in putting out 
of your mind the amusing stories and cheerful 
happenings of the day, just drop into a telephone 
booth on your way home and stay there until you 
feel not only satisfied with the result, but are 
sure of being late for dinner. This will bring 
home a sinister atmosphere that will be sensed 
from the drawing-room to the kitchen. The cook 
will be cross, the dinner over-done and cold, and 
unhappiness will be enthroned. 

Manifest blessings of prosperity, healthy and 
brilliant children, a large circle of friends; all 
will be lost sight of. In this discordant atmos¬ 
phere the mortal body will refuse to function 
properly and headaches, neuritis, heart failure 
and many other evils will follow. If any mem¬ 
ber of the family happens to fall ill in such sur¬ 
roundings, the illness will be intensified and, 
unless some good doctor with a strong and cheer¬ 
ful personality is called in and changes the at¬ 
mosphere, the patient may become too depressed 
to resist the disease. 

To be unhappy though married—first remem- 


52 UNHAPPY THOUGH MARRIED 

ber that kind words, thoughtfulness, tender care, 
passing over of differences, dropping from your 
mind the little things that have annoyed you 
during the day, will give you such a pleasing at¬ 
mosphere that you will not be unhappy at all. 
You will think married life is Heaven and wonder 
why anyone remains single. 

Unhappiness in the home is nurtured on a dis¬ 
cordant atmosphere and this can be more readily 
developed than any product of man. It takes 
months to grow flowers, but a determined person 
fully realizing the power of evil atmosphere in 
the home, can, by cultivating a grouch, change a 
pleasant atmosphere for an unpleasant one in an 
incredibly short time. 

The most noble ambition for any man or 
woman to entertain is to make their married life 
happy. It is a profession that should be studied; 
in fact, colleges should establish classes and lec¬ 
tures on the subject of how to produce happiness 
in the home. Cultivate thoughts that create a 
harmonious atmosphere with more persistency 
even than you would use in pursuit of wealth. 
Delve into the sunshine of hope and love as miners 
seek for precious metals, for a good atmosphere 
is life’s greatest asset—more to be desired than 
gold. It is of the Kingdom of Heaven. 

No matter what else an individual may have 


UNHAPPY THOUGH MARRIED 53 

accomplished in life, if one has charmed and cap¬ 
tured a mate and retained the respect and love 
of that one through better or worse so long as life 
shall last—that individual has made a success. 


THE WRONG RIGHT 


One of the paramount reasons why people do 
not Live and Grow Young is that they put in most 
of their time in defending the wrong right. The 
moment any remark is made bearing on some¬ 
thing which they may not believe in or agree with, 
they take exception to it and start acrid argu¬ 
ments to exploit their view of the question. If 
anyone were to protest in a friendly way with 
them for the unpleasant words which they have 
allowed to flow over a trifling matter, their answer 
is always the same,—it is my duty to stand up for 
my rights. 

A great many people think that the world and 
everyone they meet is conspiring to deprive them 
of their rights, and, usually, in their fervid effort' 
to protect these alleged rights, they are perpetu¬ 
ally in hot water and all who come in contact with 
them try urbanely to keep the conversation in 
channels that will not call forth the volcanic erup¬ 
tion of vocabulary which has grown to be a habit. 
These people always think that someone is step¬ 
ping on their feet. Judging from their perpetual 
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THE WRONG RIGHT 55 

peevishness you could imagine that their feet 
extended all over the earth. They develop such 
disagreeable mental atmosphere that even their 
best friends shun them. They are sacrificing days 
that should be days of happiness and years of life 
force, depleting their energy and reducing their 
life-giving atmosphere. They are protecting the 
wrong right. 

Homes all over the world are made veritable 
hells by the husband or wife nearly all the time 
endeavoring to insist upon their viewpoint, fight¬ 
ing for the wrong right, and leaving the right 
right out of sight and unprotected. If these peo¬ 
ple, who are always defending the wrong right, 
would spend their time fighting and standing up 
for the right right, they would make their home 
and the world an Eden. 

Everyone has the right to be happy, the right 
to live and grow young, the right to be successful, 
the right to have a happy home; but few people 
fight for these rights. To fight for the right right 
calls for just the opposite tactics that are used 
In defending the wrong right. In fighting for the 
right right, peace, long life and joy, kindness 
must be used to soften harshness; life thoughts 
must be used to neutralize the visualization of 
age; love must be used to dissolve hate; peaceful 


THE WRONG RIGHT 


56 

attitudes and peaceful words must be employed to 
make harmony of discord. 

Fire is extinguished by water, not by more fire 
and if those who are angry or unhappy, would 
use kindness to extinguish the outbreak of unkind 
words, they would be pleased and surprised to 
learn that this is the most skilful method of ex¬ 
tinguishing the fire of discord at its inception. 
Otherwise, there will be a conflagration of words 
and acts that may destroy the home or business, 
cause days of misery and perhaps serious illness. 
It is so easy to return harsher words for 
harsh ones; so difficult to give the soft answer 
that turneth away wrath. 

It is assumed by botanists that the cactus of the 
western plains which is covered by long sharp 
spines, originally developed those spines to pro¬ 
tect it from the hunger of the cattle. These 
spine-covered cacti are thought to be the de¬ 
scendants of cacti that formerly grew without 
spines and that Nature evolved this protection to 
save the cacti from extermination. 

The botanical wizard, Luther Burbank, has 
succeeded in producing a spineless cactus; he has 
removed the fear of the cactus that caused it to 
assume that spines were necessary for its protec¬ 
tion. In our daily contact with the world, let us 
Strive to eliminate mental spines and burrs, dis- 


THE WRONG RIGHT 57 

agreeable traits of character that are the result 
of fighting for the wrong right. 

There are homes where the husband and wife 
are cultivating and growing mental burs and 
spines, poisoning the atmosphere of what might 
otherwise be a pleasant home until acquaintances 
are almost afraid to enter for fear of encounter¬ 
ing a domestic explosion. The unhappy home 
is usually the place where people fight for the 
wrong right. 

Fight for the right right, and you will produce 
harmony instead of discord, and many bar¬ 
riers to health, success, and a long life will be 
removed. You will Live and Grow Young. 


YOUR OWN SHOP WINDOW 


The shop windows of successful, well ordered 
stores display their most attractive goods and 
those which are set forth as bargains. 

Window dressing is an art, and those who are 
successful in this branch of artistry receive large 
salaries, for it is the store’s shop window that is 
relied upon to attract trade and to display and 
advertise the goods in which the store deals. 

All window dressers essay, as best they can, to 
have their shop windows attract your attention, 
to remind you of something you need, to suggest 
the purchasing of things you had not thought of. 
A well dressed shop window is rich in alluring 
suggestion. It is like a finger beckoning you to 
come into the store, and if the windows are skil¬ 
fully dressed, they attract to the store hundreds 
of buyers each day. 

Human personality is a distinctive shop window 
which plainly discloses the nature of the mentality 
that dressed it. In this shop window is displayed 
traits of character and predominating thoughts 
which register deportment, conversation and car- 
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YOUR OWN SHOP WINDOW 59 

riage. All this tells the world the quality of 
thought of each person just as graphically as 
the shop window tells the public what the store 
handles. 

Your personality and your atmosphere are, in¬ 
deed, your shop window, as is the canvas on which 
the cinema pictures are shown. Your thoughts 
are the films that run through the machine. The 
power of your mind is the light, and it would be 
useless to attempt by any cleaning fluid to erase 
the picture on the canvas while the light was on 
and the film in the machine. Therefore, it is im¬ 
possible to disassociate your thoughts from your 
personal appearance and atmosphere. If you feel 
hopeless, you express it in your dress, even to the 
set of your necktie. You express it in your car¬ 
riage, and it is plainly written on your face. There 
is nothing in your shop window to attract the 
things you wish to come to you. Your shop win¬ 
dow repels those, that, were it dressed attrac¬ 
tively, would be drawn to you. Therefore, it is 
most important to make a study of dressing your 
life’s shop window. 


FAITH 


Faith is the road we tread when we take our 
prayers to the principle of life (God) to have 
them answered. Faith sometimes is the product 
of years. At other times it comes instantly. Faith 
exalts us and by it we seem enabled literally to 
move mountains, but in reality we are lifted up 
into the perfect expression of life and by means 
of our faith the mountain disappears. When we 
reach the heights of perfect faith, there will 
be no mountains in our way. 

God’s universe is governed by immortal laws 
and by Faith we are led to understand them. 
Prayer strengthens faith. This is its inherent 
value. It gives to some such great faith that 
they are lifted to heights from which they behold 
the way to the desired blessing. 

We cannot alter principle by prayer or bring 
principle to us. We live in principle; we live in 
abundance; we are in the midst of plenty all the 
time and by Faith we lift ourselves up to where 
we can see the bountiful supply provided for us. 
Faith unlocks the secret place and its manifold 
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FAITH 


61 


blessings recorded in the 91st Psalm. There¬ 
fore, with all thy getting, get faith—faith that 
you are a son of a King who created all that was 
created; that your Father desires you to have 
all the blessings of his vast storehouse, the under¬ 
standing of which will bring to you all His good 
and perfect gifts. If in want, know that you 
have not understood the principle of supply and 
do not pray for material things, but pray for 
Faith to lift you up to the understanding of God’s 
bounty, His limitless riches, and by Faith you 
will enter the world of abundance where there 
is no lack. 

There is ample material in the forests and 
mountains of earth to build palaces for all the 
sons of God, and Faith can give you everything 
that life can produce. Faith is the best friend 
and traveling companion that man can have. 
Faith enables you to know that God is the soul 
of the universe, that you are one with God and 
may draw from this infinite source an unlimited 
supply of all that you need. There is nothing 
Faith cannot do for us. Have Faith in the fact 
that age is mesmerism; that it is only a man-made 
lie. Have Faith that it is not the will or pleasure 
of the Infinite for you to express death. Have 
Faith in the power of the life thought; Faith that 
youth is yours to have and to hold. But, with 


62 


FAITH 


Faith, use understanding and common sense. Do 
not eat like a madman and expect Faith to give 
you the existence of a Saint. 

There is no reason in this wide world, that 
just as you have by your own industry secured 
the good things in life, you should be forced 
to depart. Faith that death is not a part of 
life will rob death of its power. If you have 
only enough Faith so that your earthly existence 
will be like a tallow candle—only burn so long 
and go out—it will be according to your Faith. 
If you have Faith that you are connected with 
the principle of life as the electric bulb is con¬ 
nected with the dynamo, your life will be much 
longer. As your Faith, so is your life. 

This book is a distinct message to tell the world 
that life can be prolonged; to give you Faith in 
the renewal of your thoughts (your viewpoint 
of life), to put you in ture with cell life that 
is ever working to rebuild your body. By ex¬ 
changing old thoughts of age for new thoughts 
of youth, you and your cell life will be able to 
do constructive team work and the results will 
be increased strength, better health and added 
years, for the three-score-year-and-ten habit will 
be broken and we will come into a new conception 
of life. 

Live! Live! Have Faith you can live; have 


FAITH 


Faith you will live. Just before you drop to sleep 
say: As my mortal body renews itself, so this i 
night my sub-consc ; ous rn'.uw. sings to my con¬ 
scious rmn > ,- • jij: :gs, of youth. I am bathed 

in yjuch and all it represent Do this daily 
ajyou eat and bathe, auu thus you will Live an^ 
Grow Young. 




LOVE AND HATE 


“Love is the outgoing or yearning of the soul 
for what is good and excellent.” Love is a power 
and the most constructive force in all the world. 
Love much and you will be brought into har¬ 
monious relations with all with whom you come 
in contact as well as your surroundings and 
environment. 

“To Live and Grow Young” it is necessary to 
understand the psychological effect of love and 
hate, for they are the two most important 
attributes of the conscious mind and have tre¬ 
mendous effect on human life. Love lengthens 
life. Hate shortens it. Hate effects every organ 
of the body and the circulation of the blood. To 
take offence, to remember slights, either real or 
imaginary, is to be weak and miserable. To 
forgive, unless we forget, is only the shadow. It 
leaves a slumbering fire which only forgetfulness 
of the slights can extinguish. 

The suffering that you would like to cause the 
person you hate, you bring upon yourself, while 
he is not affected at all. Your hate does not inters 
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LOVE AND HATE 65 

fere with his digestion or health and does not 
produce insomnia. You pay the penalty yourself 
in sleepless nights and indigestion. The Japanese 
plan is far better. If they suffer any wrong, in 
place of ruining their life by hating, they commit 
hari-kari—in other words, suicide. In the light 
of the above facts, how clear is the psychological 
truth in the statement of Christ in the Sermon on 
the Mount, “Ye have heard that it hath been 
said, thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine 
enemy, but I say unto you, Love your enemies, 
bless them that curse you.” To one who has 
been wronged and hates the person who has 
wronged him, this sounds Utopian. He imagines 
revenge can be gained by hate, while nursing 
revenge only keeps our own wounds green; there¬ 
fore, Christ’s statement is not Utopian. It is 
good, sound, life-producing common sense. 

The consequence of nourishing hate is harmful 
and often disastrous. It produces discordant 
vibrations which others feel, repelling those whom 
you might otherwise attract. The love thought 
is a great atmosphere builder. It builds an atmos¬ 
phere that attracts. It is possible by love to 
change an enemy into a life-long friend as, per¬ 
haps, when he offended you, he had been eating 
a mixture of lobster and ice cream, or cucumbers 
and milk and was not responsible. He may have 


66 


LOVE AND HATE 

repented and desired to apologize, but could not 
penetrate your hate atmosphere. 

Love is an open door through which even your 
enemies will seek entrance. Forgetting the wrong 
and loving the wrong-doer, you will gain peace 
of mind which will be a vital factor in maintaining 
health and help you to Live and Grow Young. 
It is love that will some day bring Universal 
Peace. Christ established no church; led no 
army. His sway over the hearts of men was His 
great love for them. On the cross he said, 
“Father forgive them, for they know not what 
they do.” 

Love is the hope of the world. It is through 
love that man unlearns anger and hate and learna 
to catch the harmonious vibrations of life; learns 
to keep the mind filled with glad and healthy 
thoughts and the body clothed with youthfulness 
and beauty. 


MAGNITUDE AND SIMPLICITY 


To Live and Grow Young, you must realize 
the magnitude of creation and the simplicity of 
the law that governs it. 

True religion is simplicity itself* All law is 
simple when understood, but you do not appre¬ 
ciate this fact until you grasp the magnitude of 
God’s universe. Religion started with tribal gods. 
Then, in time, God became universal and the 
worship of God was encompassed by creeds, 
dogmas and rituals. Each sect had a form of 
worship that changed with time. Few realize that 
this earth is not a special creation, but that it is 
part of a universe so great that it is in reality only 
a grain of gold in God’s jewel box and that there 
can be no special Providence, no laws that govern 
this little world, that are not universal laws 
governing all creation. Try and grasp the magni¬ 
tude of this thought. 

Imagine that you are on the farthest star, lo¬ 
cated by science, on the almost invisible rim of 
telescopic vision, equipped with a telescope much 
more powerful than any known to us. You would 
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68 MAGNITUDE AND SIMPLICITY 

then see as great a creation as that we have 
mentally visualized, millions of new stars, suns 
and moons from this new viewpoint, and even 
then you would only catch a glimpse of God’s 
front yard, and realize that “In my Father’s house 
are many mansions, many planes of existence.” 
Now this universe composed of stars, suns, moons 
and worlds as numerous as the sands on the sea¬ 
shore must be governed by law, a universal law. 

As civilization advanced, great teachers arose 
who caught glimpses of this law. They were in¬ 
spired men, for inspiration is spiritual influences, 
according to the dictionary. All these inspired 
teachers were needed; others will be needed to 
lift man up to a greater grasp of the law. The 
teachings of Christ, Buddha and Confucius had a 
great deal in common and Socrates discerned that 
the five senses did not give us the desired informa¬ 
tion of the principles of life. 

Now, having partially grasped the magnitude 
of creation, let us consider the greatest statement 
ever uttered by anyone who ever walked the earth 
regarding the law that governs man. Christ’s 
simple statement, “To love God (Good) with all 
your heart and mind, and your neighbor as your¬ 
self.” He said on these commandments hang 
all the law and prophets, to live these command¬ 
ments is in reality all the religion that is needed. 


MAGNITUDE AND SIMPLICITY 69 

They cover all the law and embody all there is to 
the law that governs life. 

If these commandments were obeyed, crime 
would be unknown. No armaments would be 
needed, no standing armies, no navies, no jails. 
These commandments are simplicity itself, the 
basis of all law and the foundation of happiness 
for all people. The law that governs man is the 
law of sowing and reaping. Sowing justice, you 
reap justice; sowing love, you reap love; sowing 
health thoughts, you reap health; sowing youth 
thoughts, you reap youth. What you put into 
the world comes back to you with a bountiful 
increase. This simple law needs no church but 
the heart of man. It is universal and cannot be 
abrogated or limited by creeds. Living according 
to this law is prayer without ceasing. 

Man sometimes assumes that the law of the 
universe can be set aside, that he can be subject 
to a curse and that whatever he may do will be 
followed by ill luck. The old idea that God is a 
God of wrath is still accepted by many and as 
long as they hold this belief, they will suffer the 
evil consequence of it. The magnitude of creation 
does not permit of the setting aside of its law, to 
inflict curses, or bestow blessings. Curses and 
blessings naturally follow our thoughts and deeds. 
There is no happenstance. Creation could not 


7 o MAGNITUDE AND SIMPLICITY 

move in harmony with such a complicated plan. 
Nature is impartial. Principle controls all alike. 
The reaching out with understanding brings it 
to us and it becomes our willing servant if we 
consistently apply the law. 

When the prodigal son was tired of a diet of 
husks, he returned to his father’s house and was 
received with open arms. It would have been 
useless to pray for the father’s house to come to 
him. It was his personal work to return. The 
father was waiting. The house had not moved 
and its doors were wide open to receive him. He 
could have wasted all his days blaming his luck, 
thinking he was subject to a curse, when the only 
curse he was under was of his own making. 
Miracles are not needed when we work with the 
law. If the father, his home and the fatted calf, 
had come to the prodigal, it would have been a 
miracle. People are often disappointed when 
desired miracles do not happen, overlooking the 
fact that the blessings they long for might easily 
be secured by working with impartial law and 
principle. No blessing is withheld from anyone. 
God curses no one. All of his children can return 
home when satiated with the husks of misfortune 
and despair. 

When weary with the ravages of age and all 
you imagine it represents, arise in thought and 


MAGNITUDE AND SIMPLICITY 71 

retrace your prodigal steps. Return to the 
thoughts of youth. The living spirit of youth 
awaits you with open arms. Do not sleep in the 
mesmerism of years. Awake in the conscious¬ 
ness of youth. Nature is always working and 
waiting for you as was the father for the prodigal’s 
return. The wrong beliefs, creeds and dogmas 
that line our way are the only stumbling blocks. 

The Magnitude of Earth’s problems dwindle 
into insignificance when we realize the Simplicity 
of the law. 


UNDERSTAND YOURSELF 


Confucius said, “The perfecting of one’s self 
is the fundamental base of all progress.” Moral 
and physical development of self can be accom¬ 
plished only by well ordered thought and atten¬ 
tion. By attention is knowledge acquired. 
Knowledge being power, by paying attention we 
gain power. 

Spotted, soiled clothes are true indications of 
spotted, soiled thoughts just as positive a guide to 
inward conditions as the thermometer is of the 
temperature, or the barometer of approaching 
storm. If you are not careful of your dress, you 
are not careful of your thoughts. Neatness of 
appearance is the unmistakable sign of a well 
ordered life. In order there is harmony, com¬ 
fort, strength and economy. A man whose life 
is well ordered saves time and respects the rights 
of others by keeping appointments, A well or¬ 
dered life brings peace and infinite calm, brings 
affluence within, which means affluence without. 

The mortal machine is your constant traveling 
companion and to understand it as well as you 
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UNDERSTAND YOURSELF 


73 

do the car you drive is wisdom. Then each day 
will be filled with calm assurance, the complement 
of an understanding mind* Your appetites will 
be under control; the organs of the body will 
perform their functions properly, which will sur¬ 
round you with a vital life-producing atmosphere. 
This will ensure you a clear mind and enable you 
to solve your problems by intuitive knowledge. 
By attention and well ordered thought you will 
be able to care for your mortal body without the 
aid of so-called specialists or tinkers. A large 
majority of men and women are perpetually in 
the tinkers’ hands, constantly being tinkered. 
They overeat rich foods and foods that fight 
with each other, and the human stomach, being 
a very restricted area for a battle, confusion per¬ 
vades all the organs until the mentality is in¬ 
juriously affected by the agonizing calls for help 
from the battle ground. Then the invalids resort 
to pills, and if these fail to help, call in a tinker. 
He places them on strict diet for months, per¬ 
haps for life, all of which could have been avoided 
had forethought been used in place of hindthought. 
These heavy, ill assorted foods were not needed. 
They were eaten for a few moments of pleasure 
only to leave hours of discomfort, attended often 
by death from acute indigestion or other causes. 

Intemperance possesses a great power to 



74 UNDERSTAND YOURSELF 

shorten life. It weakens the organs of the body 
and induces acid deposits in the joints. Its attend¬ 
ant ills cloud the brain and make man unfit for 
companionship or for business. The tinker is ap¬ 
pealed to who advises the patient to give up all 
alcoholic indulgence and spend weeks or months 
at some foreign spring to wash out the poison. 
Often the tinker and his favorite spring fail, leav¬ 
ing incurable gout, enlarged joints and a cantan¬ 
kerous disposition. 

Why not understand that light meals and 
simple diet are the proper way to nourish both the 
mind and body? When the fire box of an engine 
is filled too full of coal, 90 per cent of the fuel 
is wasted in imperfect combustion and most of it 
goes up in heavy, black smoke, but if the firing 
is conducted scientifically, there is little if any 
smoke and the normal amount of heat is con¬ 
served. 

Why not understand that it is the same with 
your stomach as it is with the fire box. Give as 
careful attention to the selection and mixture of 
your food as you would to the combustion of 
gas in your auto, thereby eliminating the necessity 
of calling in tinkers to dispel the evil produced 
by your lack of self-control and thoughtless se¬ 
lection of food. 

Understand, likewise, the value and use of 


UNDERSTAND YOURSELF 75 

water. Water is as necessary to flush the body 
as it is to flush the sewers of the city. Wash in¬ 
side with more care and persistence than you wash 
outside. Study moderation in eating, for the 
man who practices moderation in eating finds it 
easy to be moderate in his speech and conduct, 
for like produces like. The moderate man re¬ 
flects health and health is the paramount founda¬ 
tion for achievement. Health is also the chief 
element in producing happiness. With imperfect 
digestion of food, will come imperfect digestion 
of problems, and work done under such condi¬ 
tion is always inefficient. Trifling annoyances seem 
catastrophes and mole hills of problems seem to 
be mountains. 

There must be careful co-operation of the mind 
with the body. It is the only union that is in¬ 
separable until death. There is no divorce court 
that will separate you from your mortal machine, 
therefore treat it with understanding and con¬ 
sideration. 

To understand yourself is a great step toward 
acquiring the new science of “How to Live and 
Grow Young.” 


THE GHOST FACTORY 


“To Live and Grow Young,” it is necessary 
to conquer fear for fear is mortal mind’s great 
ghost factory. Understand you abide on earth 
under an eternal law and that law is—As you 
sow, so shall you reap. Fear is bad seed to plant 
in the human consciousness for the harvest is 
worry, discontent, failing health and loss of years. 

Try to make each day one of perfect harmony, 
harmony that comes with the understanding that 
you are one with the universal mind, one of the 
hosts of eternity. Then your tasks of the day 
will be done without effort, for freedom from fear 
removes burdens from your path and enables you 
to look on the bright side—to look up and not 
down. 

Do not fear want, for such fear clogs the chan¬ 
nel of supply; do not fear disease, for it blocks the 
path of the health stream flowing through your 
veins, which, unrestricted by fear, produces health 
and enables you to “Live and Grow Young.” Do 
not fear years for there is no reality in them. 
There are no years in law. You cannot imagine 

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THE GHOST FACTORY 


77 

that there ever was or ever will be any age in any 
principle of mathematics, music or electricity. 
They are just principles, and so is existence when 
free from the fear and belief of years. Fear of 
years robs man of youth and all it represents. 
Do not fear contact with people. The lustre of 
the pearl is improved by human contact. Let your 
contact with the world improve your lustre. Do 
not fear the thoughts of others or their power 
to hurt or influence you. The only power they 
have to hurt you is your own fear of them. 

Do not fear malicious animal magnetism. This 
fear destroys any person or organization that be¬ 
lieves in it. Affirm that which you desire and do 
not let that which you do not desire enter your 
mind. Build a wall of thought so high that disease 
and death thoughts cannot reach you. Do not fear 
the weather. Do not fear days. There are no 
lucky or unlucky days, but your fears make them 
so. In principle there is no luck. It never fails 
to act on certain days and work better on others. 

Free yourself from any belief of the stars con¬ 
trolling your health or life. They have no power 
to control you, and belief in astrology may rob 
you of a great future. You were never under 
any planet and cannot be under any influence of 
planets, but you may be so filled with fear re¬ 
garding your birthday that you will produce un- 


THE GHOST FACTORY 


78 

favorable conditions in life, the same as if you 
were born under so-called unfavorable planetary 
influences. The earth is not under or over any 
planet. It is just a very small jewel in God’s 
good universe—a universe so great that words 
are inadequate to express it. 

Do not fear creeds, dogmas or church councils. 
Do not allow any teachings of the past to cause 
you fear. One of the greatest causes that shorten 
life is the fear of some disease hereditary in your 
family, but there is no reason for your dying of 
consumption even if both your father and mother 
did, except your fear that you will. This fear will 
put you always on the watch for symptoms and 
if you catch a severe cold at about the age that 
your father or mother died with the disease, you 
think at once—here it is, my time has come. You 
start the ghost factory working overtime. You 
visualize this disease. The cell life takes it up 
and starts reproducing this manifestation. It is 
faithful to the picture you order. You must un¬ 
derstand that you have the power to erase all 
this from your mind. 

Some think that on account of members of their 
family only reaching 40 or 50 years, they must de¬ 
part also about that time. They persist in telling 
their friends that they came from a short-lived 
family and do not expect to reach more than the 


THE GHOST FACTORY 


79 

age of 50. As that age draws near they accept all 
symptoms as indications of the approaching end. 
The ghost factory is working. The truth is they 
need not die young simply because several of their 
family did. Surely some of the family should 
live to a good old age to average the family years, 
that is, to bring it up to the average age. So if 
you wish to hold any thought, why not hold this 
one—“The chances are I will live to a good ripe 
age, for some of my family must strike an average 
age.” As long as you must hold some thought, 
pick out a good life-producing one. Do not select 
a bad belief, even if all your family hold to it, 
for it is only mesmerism and will bring bad results. 

Many assume that if some of their ancestors 
possessed ungovernable tempers, they are justi¬ 
fied in manifesting temper on every occasion, and 
if rebuked, they hide in the shade of the ancestral 
tree. They cling to the belief that this trait was 
wished on them and instead of trying to overcome 
it, vigorously defend it. If they would know the 
truth about it, and destroy the belief that they 
are controlled by this law of heredity, the next 
generation would be improved. 

No matter what your family traits may have 
been, you have the power to be your own master— 
to remake yourself and improve the stock that is 
to follow. Have the courage to shake from the 


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THE GHOST FACTORY 


family tree this belief that an ungovernable tem¬ 
per is your heritage. Allow nothing to annoy you 
or disturb your serenity. Claim the mastery of 
your life and its problems. It will put the ghost 
factory out of business, give you days of peace and 
longer life. 

Write on the tablet of your mind the 7th verse 
of the first chapter of II Timothy—“For God 
hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power 
and of love and of a sound mind.” 


THE SMILE FACTORY 


There are two ways to live life—one as a 
hungry dog, snarlingly guarding a bone, or as a 
kitten, joyfully playing with a ball of yarn. Which 
do you prefer? As the snarling dog you will be 
in endless conflict, people will dislike and fear 
you and rejoice at your misfortunes and failures; 
while if life’s problems are met with a smile, you 
will attract people to you as does the sunny side 
of the street on a bright, cold day. The perpetual 
snarl snarls up your blood, snarls up your liver 
and heart action, and shortens your life. It 
comes high to own and hold snarls in your sys¬ 
tem. Your destiny is the harvest of your thoughts, 
therefore you are master of your destiny. You 
can paint it a harmonious picture, or a discordant 
one. It is not pigment or brushes that will paint 
this picture, but your predominating thoughts. 

The greatest possession for anyone in the build¬ 
ing of a success atmosphere is a Smile Factory. 
If you do not possess one, start one at once, and 
if you do possess one, enlarge its capacity. There 
is no power greater than a merry heart to pro- 
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THE SMILE FACTORY 


82 

duce and build up a healthy atmosphere and a 
Smile Factory is the establishment whose sole 
working partner is a merry heart. 

The person who owns a Smile Factory is sel¬ 
dom defeated. Some do not realize this, but 
imagine character alone is all that is necessary. 
Character is an important asset, but when a part¬ 
ner of smiles, its value is doubled. Smiles lighten 
your burdens, bridge disappointments, attract 
friends ancl help in all walks of life. Smiles 
produce advancement in positions of trust over 
the heads of those who do not know the value 
of a smile. The smile consciousness irons out the 
lines of care and worry that the passing years 
have etched upon your face. It fills your atmos¬ 
phere with pep until you may become a veritable 
dynamo. 

For instance, take the salesman in a large 
department store with a vinegary atmosphere. 
He can make customers forget what they came 
to purchase. He can virtually drive them away. 
He will seldom advance and will continually blame 
the world for his ill luck, while the salesman who 
owns a Smile Factory will attract customers, in¬ 
duce them to increase their purchases and continue 
to advance year after year. 

Two men may attempt to get a berth in a 
sleeping car, in which there are only two berths 


THE SMILE FACTORY 83 

left—an upper and a lower. The conductor will 
feel the atmosphere of both men. Both may have 
asked for a berth with the same words, but the 
man with the sunny atmosphere nine times out 
of ten will get the lower berth and the grouch 
will get the upper one and never understand why. 

To build a Smile Factory just takes a little 
thought. Train yourself to see the bright side 
of each problem. Read jokes and funny stories 
and remember the good ones. When the con¬ 
versation is not pleasing, turn on a good story 
and see the effect of it. We make light of the 
chestnut tree, but enjoy its shade, and its branches 
often protect us from brain storms. If anything 
has annoyed you on the way to the store, or office, 
walk around a block before you go in and think 
of some good joke. Fix it in your mind; reflect 
it in your face as you enter. The proprietor may 
be entering at the same time. If your face is 
radiant with sunshine he will notice it. If he 
does not notice it, he will feel your atmosphere. 
It may be just the tonic he needs. He will be 
attracted to you and more inclined to consider 
favorably your recent request for an increase. 

Smiles are just cutting coupons from the Bond 
of Success and cashing them daily. Smiles go a 
long way to win the sweetheart you so much desire. 
Your rival may have more worldly wealth; nature 


84 THE SMILE FACTORY 

may have endowed him with a more attractive 
physique than yours, but if all the advantages 
he has are plus a vinegary atmosphere, the chances 
are the product of your Smile Factory will win 
for you the day. Smiles are the key that unlocks 
the good things of life. Build a Smile Factory 
this very day and earth will commence to shower 
its blessings upon you. Then, don’t forget that 
age is only a man-made product. 

Smile and smile again when someone talks to 
you of advancing age. Laugh, and laugh again 
at the spectre of something that has never existed 
except in the minds of slaves enchained by con¬ 
ventional thinking. Then, if you laugh hard 
enough and sincerely enough at this age-old de¬ 
lusion, it will never get near enough to overtake 
you. 

Smiles are earth’s tonic, 

The aeroplanes of joy, 

That carry us o’er the valley of age, 

With the mind and soul of a boy. 




YOUR SUB-CONSCIOUS PHONOGRAPH 

To Live and Grow Young, to build a strong 
body in a vital life-producing atmosphere, you 
must understand the power of the sub-conscious 
mind; you must understand the action and dub 
of the cell life that builds and rebuilds your bod} 
which is working at all times and never slumber 
or sleeps. All of your thoughts, hopes and am 
bitions are daily registered on this sub-conscious 
mind, even more readily than conversation anc 
music is registered on the disc of the phonograph; 
therefore, you must guard with great care the 
impression that is registered on your sub-con¬ 
scious mind, for that which is registered the cells 
will take up and reproduce in your body. The cel" 
life receives its orders from the sub-conscious 
mind. Consider that each cell of your body has 
ears and be careful what is whispered into these 
ears, what you tell your sub-conscious mind, for 
whatever it is the cells will consider as orders and 
build accordingly. They have no other source of 
information. If you tell your sub-conscious mind 
you have a weak body, this mind will pass the 
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86 SUB-CONSCIOUS PHONOGRAPH 

orders on to the billions of cells at work and they 
will build you a weak body. If you inform the 
sub-conscious mind that you are growing old, your 
body will manifest age. This cell life is impartial 
and faithfully carries out your orders. The cell 
life will dance to the tune your sub-conscious mind 
sings to it, so consider how important it is to make 
good records for your sub-conscious mind to sing. 
In the material phonograph, if you do not like a 
disc, you need not use it, but the sub-conscious 
phonograph will play the ones your mood calls 
for, be they favorable or unfavorable. 

You are the architect of your body—the master 
builder. Your sub-conscious mind is the superin¬ 
tendent ; the cells are the workmen and will carry 
out the orders the superintendent gives them. Few 
men realize that they have the power to build or 
rebuild themselves as they desire. If a man really 
desires to do so, he can rebuild himself in such 
wise that practically nothing but his name will 
remain. If gloomy, he can make himself happy; 
if lazy, he can make himself alert and active. 
It’s all in the orders given to the sub-conscious 
mind. 

If you own a lot with an old three-story building 
on it, you can tear it down and have just the kind 
of a building you wish constructed. You go to 


SUB-CONSCIOUS PHONOGRAPH 87 

the architect and say: “Draw me plans for a six- 
story building, granite front, terra-cotta trim¬ 
mings, steel-construction.” After the architect 
has the order for that kind of a building, he does 
not sit down on the street and wait for the mate¬ 
rial to come by—not by any means. First he 
draws the plans; then he orders the kind and 
amount of material he needs to construct the build¬ 
ing, and, as it progresses, he keeps his eyes on the 
plans and specifications and carefully watches the 
material that goes into the building to see that it 
conforms to the specifications. 

Body building is the same. Draw up specifica¬ 
tions for the kind of a body you want, order from 
the Quarry of Thought the kind of material you 
desire, then watch these thoughts as they go into 
action and are recorded on the sub-conscious mind. 
See if they are what you ordered. If not, re¬ 
ject them. Draw also specifications for the 
ideals you wish to express. Don’t embalm these 
ideals. Use them, for, as muscles in constant use 
grow stronger, so will these ideals grow stronger. 
Record them in the sub-conscious mind, irrigate 
and cultivate them, and soon you will live in an 
ideal atmosphere that will attract the best to you; 
that will enable you to weather the storm of ad¬ 
versity. Your sub-conscious phonograph will play 


88 SUB-CONSCIOUS PHONOGRAPH 


only songs of rejoicing and you will Live and 
Grow Young, for, “All things respond to the call 
of rejoicing, all things gather where life is a 
song*” 


THE ROLLING STONE 


The so-called rolling stones of the world have 
been the saviours of mankind. They have been 
subjected to wrath, persecution, and even the cross, 
but were it not for those persons, who were will¬ 
ing to stand the sneers, hatred and disgrace of 
the world, we would today be living metaphor¬ 
ically in the stone age. 

The law of the infinite demands progress and 
advancement, yet a great majority of mankind 
accept as truth the time-worn platitude that “The 
rolling stone gathers no moss” as if it were a 
paramount virtue to be a moss back. This belief 
withholds great blessings from man, and it is 
time for this nonsensical saying to be consigned 
to oblivion, along with the unsupported belief 
that three-score-years-and-ten are the allotted 
span of man’s life. 

Millions are holding to old beliefs, wrapped 
in ancient creeds and dogmas that do not in any 
way satisfy them. Their souls are starving, but 
they fear to cut their anchorage, afraid of being 
thought a rolling stone. It is better not to be 
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go 


THE ROLLING STONE 


anchored except during a storm. It is far better 
to drift with the tide of human thought and ad¬ 
vancement, to keep your mind open to new thought 
and new ideals. Keep the windows of your soul 
wide open to the inflow of each new idea, each new 
truth. Stale food of any kind is not life-giving. 
If it takes the refrigeration of conservatism to 
keep it from spoiling, it is not Truth. The real 
Truth needs no refrigeration. It is self-preserva¬ 
tive. Photographs are not taken on used nega¬ 
tives, but on fresh ones, otherwise the picture 
would be a composite one and blurred. It is the 
clear outline, the positive path, that leads to 
success. 

To roll gracefully from one belief to another, 
to change from one business position to another, 
is progress and advancement. It is a virtue, not 
a fault. It spells efficiency and success. Often 
when business life is started, the first admonition 
of parents to their son is “Don’t be a rolling 
stone; take one position and stick to it,” but this 
is antiquated advice. If the person has visualized 
success and holds to that ideal, it may be neces¬ 
sary to make any number of changes before the 
desired results are reached. If the proper ideals 
are held with persistency, each change should 
bring the goal nearer, as the ladder of success is 


THE ROLLING STONE 


91 

mounted round by round. A rolling stone loses its 
rough edges and acquires polish. 

Keep on rolling. Out of old beliefs, old creeds; 
out of arid and barren pastures, roll into new 
thoughts, better positions and higher ideals. Even 
though the rolling may be attended by hard bumps, 
loss of friends and suffering, bear them patiently. 
They are the inevitable pains of progress. 

Roll out of the belief that three-score-years-and- 
ten are the allotted span of life. Roll from age 
to youth—from weakness to strength. Keep on 
rolling—out of malice to kindness,—out of hate 
to love,—out of failure to success. 

Roll and roll on until you reach “Pastures green, 
beside the still waters” until you are at peace with 
yourself and the world, and possess all the good 
things the world can give,—health, wealth and 
happiness. Blessed are the rolling stones, the 
saviours of the world. 


DISCONTENTMENT AND DISCOM¬ 
POSURE 


There is a great difference between discon¬ 
tented people and those who are discomposed. 
Discontented people are in the class with the “roll¬ 
ing stones.” They are beacons that light the 
path of progress. They are not satisfied with the 
world as they find it and want to make it better. 
Healthful discontent is a virtue. 

The discomposed people are those whose lives 
are disordered. They are easily irritated and 
vexed. They usually do not know what they want, 
and whatever they get, they want something else. 
They are the nervous, neurasthenic subjects. Dis¬ 
composed people are merely luggage. They do 
not know how to be happy and they seldom allow 
anyone else to be. They never will accomplish 
great things, for, being in a constant state of irri¬ 
tation and peevishness, their vision is clouded. 
Discomposure breeds disease and fills hospitals 
and asylums. The discomposed people shorten 
the average of human life, as they usually die 
young. Everything vexes them. They have an 
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DISCONTENT AND DISCOMPOSURE 93 

idea that life is teasing them and they resent it. 
The discomposed people have no aim. By forget¬ 
ting self and undertaking some worthy task, they 
might forget their discomposure. 

Healthful discontent is God in man bursting 
forth into fuller expression of infinite possibilities. 
The discontented person thinks there is a better 
way. He is not contented with methods used 
and wishes to find better ones. Had Moses been 
contented, he would never have spent forty years 
leading the children of Israel through the wilder¬ 
ness. We never would have had the ten com¬ 
mandments and the old testament would have lost 
a great part of its power. Had Christ not been 
discontented with established religion, with the 
greed, sin, cruelty and lust of the world, the 
sublime Sermon on the Mount would never have 
been given to man. There would have been no 
crucifixion and no resurrection and man would 
never have known that the grave could be robbed 
of its victory. While Christ was discontented, 
(not satisfied with life as it was lived), he was 
never discomposed. 

Columbus was discontented with the size of the 
world and added a new hemisphere to the globe. 
Had Franklin been contented to sit down and 
watch the storm, electricity would never have 
been induced to slide to earth on his kite string. 


94 DISCONTENT AND DISCOMPOSURE 

The discontent of Robert Fulton enabled us 
to sail the seas by steamer. The discontent of 
the steam in a tea kettle gave to the discontented 
brain of James Watt the idea from which the 
steam engine was evolved. 

Morse was not contented with the slow mail 
and gave us the perfected telegraph which was 
born in the brain of discontented Joseph Henry. 

Bell and Grey’s discontent blessed us with the 
telephone. 

George Westinghouse was not contented with 
the old hand brake and his discontent gave to 
man the air brake, that reduced the danger of 
travel and greatly lowered the cost of transporta¬ 
tion. 

Thomas Edison, that volcano of discontent, 
has given the world such a number of blessings, it 
is difficult to enumerate them, and though three- 
score-years-and-ten (the supposed jumping off 
place for man), he is still hard at work. 

The Roll of the Discontented, but unconquered, 
to whom the world is deeply indebted, would fill 
volumes. Among them are Stevenson, Ericson, 
Thompson, Marconi, Wright, Curtis, Corliss, 
Roentgen, Morton,—the noble list extends to his¬ 
tory’s very first page. 

Wholesome discontent may be likened to wire¬ 
less messages flashed into etherial space calling 


DISCONTENT AND DISCOMPOSURE 95 

for help. They are man’s conscious or uncon¬ 
scious SOS calls, and as the operators pick up 
wireless vibrations and interpret them, so great 
minds pick up the demands of discontent, the 
needs of the world, and undertake to solve the 
problems. They become the messenger boy and 
deliver to the world whatever its discontent 
demands. 

Man is and always has been discontented. He 
resents the fallacy that three-score-years-and-ten 
is the alloted span of life ordained by Nature. 
Most men fail to appreciate the fact that it is 
mesmerism that holds him to this belief. Owing 
to his discontent, man has searched the world 
over for the Fountain of Youth—compounded 
elixir after elixir—thought he had found it in 
X-rays, violet rays, radium, etc., but prolonged 
life will not come from without. It is the product 
of the within. Man must force his mind to work 
in harmony with his body and as that rebuilds 
and rebuilds, always replacing the old cells with 
new ones, so he must replace old life thoughts 
with new ones, and if he visualizes youth as per¬ 
sistently as his body reproduces youth cells for old 
ones, he will have found the Fountain of Youth. 
But, it will not be elixirs or waters, but visions 
that will constantly renew his vital being and keep 
him young. 





96 DISCONTENT AND DISCOMPOSURE 

The healthy discontented people who read this 
book will be more discontented than ever over the 
accepted world-wide belief of three-score-years- 
and-ten, and if they become sufficiently discon¬ 
tented, they will destroy its mesmeric power. 

The discomposed people—the ones vexed and 
irritated—will, no doubt, become more discom¬ 
posed. They will doubt the truth of these state¬ 
ments that life can be prolonged. Every new 
truth will vex them. The discontented, however, 
working in harmony with Nature, will determine 
to rival the longevity of Moses and Thomas Parr. 
In another half-century this goal will be attained. 
When at that time there shall be a host of people, 
140, 150 and 160 years young, the Jubilee Edi¬ 
tion of this book will call attention to the age 
attained by Noah, Cainan, Jared, Enoch and 
Methuselah and beg those who are discontented 
with their attainment of 160 years, to continue the 
process of life renewal and emulate the vital his¬ 
tory of Methuselah. 


INTUITION AND FRUITION 


This message of “How to Live and Grow 
Young” deals with the different phases of thought 
and is the unfoldment of a new truth which is 
destined to prove that three-score-years-and-ten is 
a mesmeric power that has materially shortened 
the life of man. The understanding of this 
philosophy will destroy this power and develop 
intuition which will help you to grasp this mes¬ 
sage. Intuition will protect you from accident 
for intuition gives one a clear vision and enables 
one to see the sign posts and danger signals; to 
be on the opposite side of the street when a girder 
or scaffolding is falling; to keep out of the path 
of some drunken, reckless, auto driver who is 
taking toll of human life. 

A person whose intuition is highly developed 
will escape many of the pitfalls of life. The in¬ 
dustrial development of the world has been car¬ 
ried on by those possessing clear intuition. The 
development of intuition is most important. Work 
for it. Watch for it, and go and meet it, for 
it is a good friend and will be a better one if 
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98 INTUITION AND FRUITION 

you cultivate it, and give it encouragement. It 
will lead you into all good, according to the 23rd 
Psalm. 

Intuition is a wonderful guide and brings 
Fruition to those who heed it. Intuition and 
Fruition are partners. 

Intuition will show you the way that leads to 
the Fruition of your desires. Watch for these 
intuitive messengers. Expect them; command 
your intuitions to come to your aid when prob¬ 
lems confront you; consider that intuition is a 
silent partner and desires to aid and will if called 
upon for help. The obeying of intuition develops 
this power and brings fruition. 


THE ROAD TO NOWHERE 


There is a road for all endeavors of life. There 
is a road to health, happiness and long life which 
is open to all with no obstructions to progress 
save those we create or those we fail to remove 
when found. There is a road to Success and 
Prosperity. All of these roads are open to every 
human resident of earth, but few are sure which 
road they wish to take. A great majority seem 
to be on the Broad Highway to Nowhere. They 
resemble the traveler who asked for a ticket to 
Springfield. The agent inquired if his destination 
was Springfield, Massachusetts, Illinois or Mis¬ 
souri, and the traveler replied: “Doesn’t matter, 
whichever is the cheapest.” 

Most people desire health, happiness and suc¬ 
cess, but many take the road which calls for the 
least thought and effort. The road to health is 
the most important of all roads to find. Study 
the maps and guide books of this road as you 
would the maps and guide books of Europe if you 
were planning a trip abroad. Give it careful at¬ 
tention or you will find yourself on the road to 
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100 THE ROAD TO NOWHERE 

Nowhere which leads through the swamps of ill 
health and disappointment and ends at the grave¬ 
yard. 

When you have found the road to Health, you 
will find that you are likewise on the road to 
Happiness, for the roads of Health and Happi¬ 
ness are virtually one and the same. 

More than half the world think that there 
are only four salient things in life: bed and three 
meals a day. Many employers wonder how their 
employees get home at night, and are apt to 
attribute their efforts to instinct and not to mental 
effort. Many seem afraid of thinking, for fear 
they will run out of thought. 

When you make up your mind to do a certain 
thing and are convinced that it is the proper thing 
to do and that it deserves success; when you are 
satisfied in your own mind, do not ask everyone 
you meet his idea about it. To do so is equivalent 
to consulting the sign post on the road to Nowhere. 
Remember that the man who really desires to do 
right has, in the long run, twice the power of the 
man who wants to stop him. All the good in the 
world remains after the finder passes on. It’s not 
lost—it’s just waiting around for some other finder 
to use it. The road to Success cannot be found 
by liars. Liars travel on the road to Nowhere. 
A liar must keep books and note down the kind of 


THE ROAD TO NOWHERE 101 


lie he told and to whom he told it. A truthful 
man has only to refresh his memory. It saves 
bookkeeping on conversation. 

Truth is a vital power in prolonging life, for 
those who deal in untruths (Mark Twain says 
there are eight hundred and sixty-nine kinds of 
liars) are always more or less worried for fear 
of being found out, and worry constantly travels 
the road to old age. 

If you are ashamed to walk the streets with 
yourself; ashamed to go to bed with yourself, 
you are on the road to Nowhere. Those on the 
road to Success keep confidence with themselves 
and their fellow-men. Nature is on the side of 
the honest man and works with him. The secrets 
of Nature are revealed to the honest man, the 
man with a clean conscience and a clear vision. 
Honesty and integrity are powerful mental and 
moral disinfectants. 

Honest endeavor is an ingredient of God’s 
dynamite to blast open the secrets of Nature. 
Nature never jokes, never plays tricks on those 
searching for knowledge, but rewards them with 
its rarest blessings. Those who use God’s dyna¬ 
mite, honest endeavor, invariably receive their 
reward; perhaps not in the form of the Legion 
of Honor, but certainly in the Honor of Legions 
of earth’s worthwhile people. 


102 THE ROAD TO NOWHERE 


Those on the road to Nowhere will find life 
anything but attractive. The only consolation 
for them as well as their fellow-men lies in the 
probability that, through having followed the 
wrong road, they will die young. 


REGRETS AND REJOICING 


All people of earth have cause for regrets and 
cause for rejoicing. Regrets interfere with health 
and shorten years. Rejoicing vitalizes the blood 
and quickens the heart action. Rejoicing makes 
the mind brilliant as sapolio brightens metal. 
Regrets dull the eyes, take the elasticity out of 
the step and deplete the atmosphere. Rejoicing 
quickens the step, brightens the eyes and vitalizes 
your atmosphere, for “All things respond to the 
call of rejoicing; all things gather where life is 
a song.” The fact that you have made a mistake 
in life or broken one or two of the commandments 
may be ample cause for regrets, but rejoice that 
you have realized your mistake—realized that 
you were on the road to Nowhere and rejoice 
that you have discovered your mistake before 
it was too late to retrace your steps; that is indeed 
cause for rejoicing. Rejoicing is a real song 
of Praise, a song everyone who awakes in the 
morning with a perfect body, able to see and 
hear, should sing. This alone is a tremendous 
cause for rejoicing, but what a blessing to awake 


104 REGRETS and rejoicing 

in the morning and realize that you are living 
in the U. S. A., a country not overwhelmed with 
such gigantic and appalling problems as war- 
wrecked Europe. This should be such cause for 
rejoicing that regrets could find no lodgment in 
your mind. 

Nothing enables man to realize and appreciate 
his blessings and rejoice over them more than 
Spiritual Equilibrium. Spiritual Equilibrium 
enables man to be connected with material de¬ 
velopment in all walks of life, to be interested in 
the advancement of man and in the progress of 
the world. Spiritual Equilibrium enables man to 
keep his head in times of stress—to see the 
golden lining of each earth cloud and rejoice that 
he can see it. Spiritual Equilibrium enables a 
man to look upon earth’s honors and riches as 
only stepping stones on life’s highway—to neither 
worship nor ignore them, but to rejoice over the 
blessings they bring. 

Rejoicing prevents the poison of despair pro¬ 
duced by regrets. The regretful person gives up 
when encompassed by clouds. The joyful person 
endowed with spiritual equilibrium climbs the 
mountain and gets above the cloud line—the 
same world for both, but one is in the sunshine 
and one is in the gloom. It is easy to stay in the 
valley. It is an effort to climb the mountains, 


REGRETS AND REJOICING 105 

but it is worth the effort. In the valley there 
may be marshes to retard our steps. There are 
no marshes on the mountains. The air may be 
foul in the valley, but on the Mount of Rejoicing, 
the air is pure. You can remain in your room 
and climb these mountains. It has been done in 
prison. 

Christ said to the thief on the cross “This day 
shalt thou be with me in Paradise.” The thief 
only turned to Truth, was on the mountain-top 
of rejoicing and gained Paradise. If we turn to 
Truth, we can also rejoice that we have found 
Paradise, but without the pain of the cross to 
bear. 

Blessed are those who can see the way, and 
not be forced to be crucified to find it. Spiritual 
Equilibrium enables you to avoid the cross, to 
“Live and Grow Young.” 


UNIVERSAL PEACE AND PROLONGED 
LIFE 

While this book was being dictated bearing the 
message of youth and prolonged life, there came 
the assurance that it would find a place in the 
thought of the world. It is seed for thought 
which by falling in good ground will fulfill its 
mission, but it is a message that cannot be read 
and then laid aside. It must be made a part of 
daily thought. The full benefit of this message 
will never be realized until all nations grasp 
the fact that war is simply madness, that the 
preparation for war and the war thought do 
more to shorten life than all diseases of earth. 
The war is simply the highway of Nowhere; that 
the goal when reached by any nation is not vic¬ 
tory, but ultimate defeat and disaster. 

The establishment of universal peace and dis¬ 
armament alone would increase the span of life 
from 5 to io years—not by lessened death rate, 
but from the fact that man had been able to dis¬ 
cern the truth that it was a crime to take life. 
When the fact is seen that war is an illusion and 
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PEACE AND PROLONGED LIFE 107 

delusion, that it is a disease and plague, it will 
be conquered, but not until then. 

There is no death. That which lives always 
has lived, always will live. 

The separation of ten million souls from their 
mortal body and sending them by the wholesale 
to the next plane of existence does not at once 
change these individuals. They are filled with 
hate and, for a generation or more, influence the 
thoughts of those on earth. They cannot see 
that peace is the only way, any more than those 
left on earth can. Those who have died on the 
battlefield stir up those left on earth. They set 
in operation, influences that create tremendous 
confusion, making all national and international 
problems almost impossible of solution. 

The discernment by the people of earth that 
universal peace is the only way would at once act 
as a powerful tonic, vitalizing all people, estab¬ 
lishing hope and faith that civilization had at last 
reached the desired haven of peace. This alone 
would lengthen life, and the first great step would 
have been taken to break the mesmerism of age 
and death. 

To continue war preparation in this age of 
development is to unloosen the furies of destruc¬ 
tion. The mind of man cannot contemplate what 
it means, for shortly the inventive genius of the 




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world will unlock from Nature secrets that will 
make warfare ten times as destructive as it was in 
the last war. If universal peace is at once estab¬ 
lished, there will be no market for this kind of 
research, and these persons will then turn their 
attention to constructive lines. The terrible ex¬ 
plosives and death-dealing appliances now almost 
completed will remain locked in unexplored 
realms of thought, where, for the good of man¬ 
kind, they should remain. If they are allowed to 
be discovered, they will have the power to destroy 
nations in a few days’ time. 

The hour has struck; the parting of the ways 
has been reached. Which will the Nations take? 
Will it be the path of Universal Peace and Pros¬ 
perity, or lasting world-wide war preparation, 
standing armies, debts unpayable and death for 
millions, the destruction of civilization in less than 
a generation? 

There are recorded in this book two truths now 
knocking at the portals of thought. The first is 
that it is possible by constructive thought on the 
side of life and youth to prolong life for years, 
second, that by establishing Universal Peace at 
once, it is possible to save the people of the next 
generation as well as existing governments from 
destruction. These two messages are the greatest 
ever given to man in 2000 years. Will he over- 


PEACE AND PROLONGED LIFE 109 

look them as he did the message which was given 
2000 years ago of “Peace on earth, good will to 
man?” Has war so blinded man that he must 
go on with war, war preparations and destruction 
and wipe out in the next twenty years the glorious 
progress recorded on history’s pages? If this 
message is not heeded, it would have been far 
better if man had never advanced beyond the 
stone age for an uncivilized savage is less harm¬ 
ful than a civilized one.. 


SPIRITUAL ELEVATORS 


Good thoughts are spiritual elevators. If you 
cannot furnish your own elevators, read good 
books that accomplish this purpose. Read books 
written by those with clear vision. Often some 
good uplifting thought will give you just the 
added power to turn pending defeat to victory. 
The preceding chapters in this book contain 
enough truth and inspiration to remove you from 
Lonesomehurst on the shores of Lake Despond¬ 
ency to a palace on Fifth Avenue if that is your 
desire. 

The author herewith gives a list of well-known 
writers and some of their books, all of which are 
spiritual elevators, and will be helpful to those 
n quest of victory over mortal problems. 

Fenwick L. Holmes is a well-known teacher of 
these vital truths. His books, “Being and Be¬ 
coming,” “How to Develop the Faith That 
Heals,” and many others are recommended. His 
brother, Ernest S. Holmes, has written two books 
that are spiritual elevators—“Creative Mind” 
and “Creative Mind and Success.” Emile Cady’s 


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lessons in truth are highly inspirational. Dr. John 
Murray at the Hotel Waldorf, New York, is 
doing great good. Orison Swett Marden’s books 
are a remarkable battery of uplifting thoughts. 
Millions have read Mr. Marden’s books, for they 
have been translated into many languages. Chas 
F. Haanel’s “Master Key” is a key indeed tc 
this new philosophy. 

“The Pathway of Roses” by Christian D. La 
san makes life’s pathway more beautiful for those 
who read it. 

Elizabeth Town of Holyoke has written any 
number of helpful books, and “The Nautilus” 
edited by this gifted woman has a wide circulation 
Dr. Frank Crane’s books and writings are a 
distinctive force in the world for good. 

Dr. A. A. Lindsay’s “New Psychology” is a 
wonderfully interesting book. It extends to even/ 
phase of human life and opens up many new ave¬ 
nues of thought. 

The mere mention of names and books is in 
spiring, even though we cannot here detail the 
splendid achievement of the authors. Among 
them may be mentioned: Ralph Waldo Trime, 
with his books, “In Tune with the Infinite” and 
others; Dr. Julia Seaton; Joseph Perry Green; 
Nona L. Brooks; Annie Rix ]\ llets, who edits 
“The Master Mind”; Henry; Victor Morgan, 





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editor of “The Master Christian’*; R. C. Douglas; 
Emma Curtis Hopkins; George Wharton James; 
Edgar Lucian Larkin; Edwin Markham; and 
John Herman Randall. 

All these authors and books, with many others, 
are the spiritual elevators of the race. 


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By 

ARTHUR EDWARD STILWELL 

ioth Edition 

Hodder & Stoughton, Publishers 
London, England 

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into the French and Swedish languages. The plan is workable 
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By 

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The Sale of a Soul 
The Bursting of the Chrysalis 
Around the World in Five Days 
Love through the Ages 
Castle Green 
The Court’s Decree 
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